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reconˈdition, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans.
1. To restore to a proper, habitable, or usable condition; to repair or rehabilitate.
1920Glasgow Herald 29 Apr. 7/1 The Agamemnon..is being reconditioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 1922Flight XIV. 366/1 In the name of economy, the R.A.F. has had to be content with machines built during the War and ‘reconditioned’, or, at best, with designs got out during the War. 1930S. Runciman Hist. First Bulgarian Empire ii. i. 53 A strong line of Imperial fortresses..had probably been reconditioned by Constantine Copronymus. 1935Punch 27 Mar. 346/2, I see with shame that H.M. Gov. propose in a White Paper to ‘recondition’ the Navy. But I see with delight and surprise that for once the Shorter O.E.D. does not acknowledge the existence of the filthy verb. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 125/2 Recondition (Hair),..to restore hair by means of suitable substances and/or treatments to its normal condition.
2. Forestry. To reduce warping and collapse in (timber) by heating in a steam-filled atmosphere for several hours.
1932Rep. Forest Products Res. Board 1930 iv. 42 Experiments have been made during the year to ascertain the possibility of reconditioning or restoring collapsed Tasmanian oak. 1938H. E. Desch Timber x. 127 Timber that is badly warped or cupped, without showing any visible signs of collapse, may also be successfully re-conditioned. 1979J. G. Wilkinson Industr. Timber Preservation vii. 198 Conventional kilns can also be used to: 1. Recondition timber which has collapsed. 2. Destroy fungal growth and insect infestations.
3. Psychol. To alter the responses of (a person) by means of conditioning techniques; to replace (existing reponses) in this manner.
1935[implied in reconditioning vbl. n. 3]. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 4 Nov. 9/5 The army has been consistently uninterested in taking the rejects into conditioning battalions and reconditioning them. 1957W. Sargant Battle for Mind x. 220 It is very difficult indeed to condition or recondition such persons [sc. psychopaths], some of whom are criminals, until later in life when their brainwave patterns become much more normal. 1967J. A. Hadfield Introd. Psychotherapy xiv. 88 The objection then to treatment by re-conditioning the symptoms alone is..that we are not dealing with the real illness.
Hence reconˈditioned ppl. a.
1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 374 Our pernicious system of employing reconditioned souls on such delicate duties. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 21 Apr. 19/3 (Advt.), Guaranteed reconditioned cars. 1944Auden For Time Being (1945) 52, I moved the vices out of the city into a chain of re-conditioned lighthouses. 1957L. F. R. Williams State of Israel ix. 155 Israel's first elected Parliament, which met in a reconditioned cinema. 1977Western Mail (Cardiff) 5 Mar. 14/3 (Advt.), Massey Ferguson 35, 4-cylinder Tractor. Reconditioned engine. |