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reˈorganize, v.|riː-| [re- 5 a: cf. F. réorganiser (1812).] trans. To organize anew. Also intr. for refl.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 539 By whose omnipotent Agency..the Bodies of his Saints..shall be gathered up, re-united, and re-organized into glorious Bodies. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1862) II. 258 The news of this failure..obliged him..to reorganise his broken troops. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 201 Thou shalt yet reorganize Thy maidenhood of beauty. 1857J. Hyde Mormonism vii. 183 They completely reorganized in May, 1857. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 80 He had reorganised the constitution on the most strictly conservative lines. 1972‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing i. 14 The time has come for him to reorganize. He will be selling some earlier ventures. Hence reˈorganized ppl. a.; reˈorganizer.
1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 212 To apply his powers as a re-organizer and restorer to the East. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 134 He is a reorganiser of the moral world. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claim. xiv. 129 The rude impact of the thought of these people upon his reorganized condition of mind. 1929P. Hughes Catholic Question, 1688–1829 iii. iii. 283 In the re-organised Catholic Committee, O'Connell had from the first been a force. |