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▪ I. reˈmake, v.|riː-|
Also re-make.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To make over again, reconstruct. Also refl. and absol.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 55 The increasement of Estate and Honour, which the Queen conferred on him, together with the opportunity to remake himself. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxvi. 160 Blessed be thou..who in an instant destroyest a Soul, and again remakest it. 1799W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 512 It must be re⁓made over and over again. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. ix. (1852) 274 Could not He who first made all creatures perfect, remake us? 1864Browning Rabbi Ben Ezra x, Maker, remake, complete,—I trust what Thou shalt do! 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §143 Lest..a carefully executed testament be set aside when it is no longer possible to remake it.
2. To make again into something.
1880Froude Bunyan 63 When the law had for a time remade Dissent into a crime.
Hence reˈmaking vbl. n.; also reˈmaker.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 18 July an. 1776, Re⁓making in large cock may help hay which is under-made. 1841Emerson Misc. (1855) 200 What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Re-maker of what man has made..? 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee at Crt. K. Arthur 191 If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have a conscience.
▪ II. ˈremake, n.
[f. the vb.]
1. A second formation of a gold-bearing reef. Austral.
1865Mining Surveyors' Rep. (Mining Dept., Victoria) Mar. 74 The lode was however very thin, and ran completely out at 70 feet deep, leaving no track. However a party are now prospecting this ground, to discover if a remake of this reef exists.
2. (Also re-make.) A remaking of a film or of a script, usually with the rôles played by different actors; an adaptation of the theme of a film.
1936Variety 24 June 4/4 James Melton assigned the lead in Warners' remake of ‘Desert Song’. 1940Time 22 Jan. 76/3 The result is not just another remake, for Director Hawks's weird idea was also to remake the sex of his leading character. 1948Sunday Pictorial 18 July 11/4 ‘If Winter Comes’ (Empire) is a re-make of the famous weepie novel. 1952Time 2 June 92/3 Lovely to Look at (M-G-M), a re-make of the old Broadway musical Roberta (filmed in 1935 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers). 1957Observer 1 Sept. 11/7 The romance is a remake by director Leo McCarey of his ‘Love Affair’, which seemed a good film when Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer did it twenty years ago. 1960Times 23 Feb. 4/1 A Hollywood company has undertaken a Western remake of Mr. Akira Kurosawa's famous Japanese costume drama. 1977New Statesman 2 Sept. 312/2 The technicolour remake of the talkie remake of some..silent Hollywood goodie. |