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▪ I. recontract, n. rare—1.
[re- 5 a.]
A fresh contract.
a1610Parsons Leicester's Ghost (1641) 18 It was pure love which made mee undertake This haplesse recontract with thee to make.
▪ II. reconˈtract, v.
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. recontracter (Cotgr.).]
To contract again, in senses of that vb.
1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 415 [He] sent him..a dispensation to put away his wife..and to recontract Anne of Bretaigne, the widow of Charles the eight lately deceased. 1622J. Reynolds God's Revenge ii. ix. 160 My soule hath made my peace with God, and my heart desires to recontract it both with thyselfe and her. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. Sum. Concl. (1739) 201 For the sense of State once contracted into a Privy Council, is soon recontracted into a Cabinet-Council, and last of all into a Favourite or two.
So reconˈtraction.
1861Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 297 Continuous dilatation is likely to be attended with untoward symptoms and is always followed by a strong tendency to recontraction. |