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reˈpristinate, v. [f. re- + pristine a.] trans. To restore to the original condition or position; to revive. Hence reˈpristinated ppl. a.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 480 It will not be amiss to enquire..by what degrees they were repristinated and rendered in their former state. 1869Shedd Homilet. 372 The practice of catechising children and youth should be repristinated in the American Churches. 1969R. H. Bainton Erasmus of Christendom (1970) i. 14 The glory of Greece, the grandeur of Rome, the grace of Galilee should repristinate society and revivify the Church. 1970Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. VII. 804/1 The disavowal of the doctrine..and its displacement by the repristinated authorities of Scripture and Christian experience. 1977Theology LXXX. 200 The power exercised by the remembered and interpreted past has been deliberately conserved and repristinated by methods which have not excluded secular rituals. |