re-eˈstate, v. Now rare.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To reinstate, re-establish. (Very common in 17th c.)
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxxi. §3. 348 They againe sought to reestate themselues in so glorious a possession. 1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 362 The old Duke was re-estated with both their consents. a 1662 Heylin Laud (1668) 468 A day..on which the Bishop of Lincoln was re-estated with such Triumph. 1681 Wallis Two Serm. i. (1682) 26 Had there not been a Degeneration..there had been no need of a Regeneration, to reestate us in it. a 1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1972) ix. 82 Kallias's meaning was by this alliance to re-estate his power in the Meszrian Marches. |