▪ I. rechange, n.
(riːˈtʃeɪndʒ)
Also 5 Sc. recheng(e, 5–6 rechaunge, 6 rechaynge.
[f. re- 5 a + change n.]
† 1. The re-exchange on a bill. Obs.
So F. rechange (1680 in Hatz.-Darm.). See also recamby.
| 1489 Sc. Acta Dom. Conc. 130/1 Þe recheng interess dampnage & expensis sustenit be þe said reuerent faider extending..to þe soume of xijxx of ross noblis. 1492 in Arnolde Chron. (1502) H iv, Alle maner costis lossis and damagis whiche shall happen too falle for lac of payment at the daye aforesayde of the principall somme aboue sayde be it bee exchaunge rechaunge or other wyse. 1538 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pl. Crt. Adm. (1894) I. 72 To pay change and rechaunge after the use and custum of merchants. 1682 J. Scarlett Exchanges 294 By Re-change here and else-where, is meant, the whole Bill which is advanced with the Re-change, Provisions and Charges, &c...and not the bare Re-change only, which is the Monyes that exceeds the Value of the first Bill. |
† 2. The act of re-exchanging (money or goods).
| 1487 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 403/1 An Act against Exchange and Rechange, without the Kings License. 1503 Ibid. 525/1 Money in Golde or Silver, whiche..cannot come to the proffete of the Kyngs Realme..without exchaynge or rechaynge made in the Landes beyond the See. 1570 Dee Math. Pref. *ij, Certaine and generall Rules for Exchaunge of money, and Rechaunge. 1622 Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 371 The benefit or profit of exchange is never known directly but by the rechange thereof. 1625 in Rymer Foedera XVIII. 146 With sufficient Meanes for the Re⁓change of the Tokens to be uttered to the Citizens. |
3. The act of changing or altering again.
| a 1550 Image Hypocr. i. 192 in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 416/1 Which [? read with] chaunge and rechaunge Of fastinges and of feestes. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 232 Neuer the Muses more tired then now with changes & rechanges of his deuises. 1642 Spelman View Printed Bk. 36 With in the space of 500 yeares..how many changes [printed thinges] and rechanges had they of their Gouernment. 1890 Lowell Inscr. Bust Fielding, He..saw the Sphinx, now bestial, now divine, In change and rechange. |
▪ II. rechange, v.
(riːˈtʃeɪndʒ)
Also 6 rechaung(e.
[f. re- 5 a + change v., perh. after F. rechanger.]
1. To change or alter again. a. intr. or absol.
| 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 98 Helen of Greece..chaunged and rechaunged at hir pleasure, I graunt. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 155 It..addeth thereunto or diminisheth, changeth and rechangeth. 1682 Bunyan Holy War 129 How often hast thou changed and rechanged. 1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXV. 141 The eye soon sickens of identical furniture, and unvarying imagery... Let us change and rechange. |
b. trans.
| 1592 Kyd Sol. & Pers. i. i. 22 Did not I change long loue to sudden hate; And then rechange their hatred into loue? 1644 Featly Roma Ruens 7 The whole world shall be changed into a second chaos, and that chaos shall be re⁓changed into a new world. a 1774 Goldsm. Hist. Greece I. 170 By this changing and rechanging the order of battle, nothing farther was done for that day. 1896 Daily News 19 Nov. 6/5 Recusancy, or the crime of not being able to change, and even re-change, one's religion at the command of the Privy Council, figures conspicuously. |
† 2. trans. (and absol.) To re-exchange (goods or money). Obs.
| 1551 Edw. VI Jrnl. in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) II. 406 Liberty was gevin to the marchauntis to exchaung and rechaung money for money. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 239 There is no negociating now adayes, but with it [honesty] and with money; changing and rechanging as the market goes. |
Hence reˈchanging vbl. n.
| 1611 Florio, Rimuta, a remoouing or rechanging. 1612 Brerewood Lang. & Relig. 47 Nothing is found of any rechanging of those languages from the Roman, into the state wherein now they are. |