reconˈstructed, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. That has been reconstructed. reconstructed stone (see quot. 1950).
| 1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Curr. II. 97 Choice was made of persons to fill the offices of the reconstructed treasury department. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 781/1 The legislatures of the reconstructed States. 1909 W. G. Renwick Marble & Marble Working xv. 175 Reconstructed Sicilian marble was selected for lining the walls of the operating-rooms at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, opened last year. Ibid. 176 (caption) The first building to be erected in Reconstructed Portland Stone. 1933 Bloomfield Language 302 Students of the Romance languages reconstruct a Primitive Romance (‘Vulgar Latin’) form before they turn to the written records of Latin, and they interpret these records in the light of the reconstructed form. 1935 Specification XXXVII. 245/1 Reconstructed stone is natural stone—reconstructed, and is to be distinguished from artificial stone, which may be described as high-grade concrete. 1950 Ibid. LII. 343/1 Reconstructed stone is natural stone crushed and moulded into the required shape after it has been formed into a plastic mass by the addition of cement and water. 1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthrop. iii. 43 The reaction against the attempt to explain social institutions by their reconstructed past..came at the end of last century. 1957 Gloss. Terms Stone in Building (B.S.I.) 30 Reconstructed stone, a building material manufactured from cement and natural aggregate for use in a manner similar to and for the same purpose as natural building stone. 1959 Language XXXV. 425 We..agree on the essential artificiality of Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European. |
b. U.S. Converted from (a form of) Communism.
| 1966 New Statesman 14 Oct. 549/1 (Vietnam) As reconstructed peasants sleep Upon their AID-assisted beds. [1973 R. Hayes Hungarian Game viii. 63 All 10 seem to be unreconstructed Stalinists, somewhat to the fanatical left of both Rákosi and Gerö.] |