单词 | reapply |
释义 | reapplyv. 1. a. transitive. To apply or administer again (see apply v. I.). ΚΠ 1605 S. Daniel Trag. Philotas v. ii. sig. F4v Cratetus in wrath calles presently againe, To haue the tortures to be reapplied. 1799 N. Drake in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 473 To ascertain the effects of new medicines, or to reapply those which..ignorance and apprehension have prematurely laid aside. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 388 Mixing them [sc. slices of soil] into composts with lime, and re-applying them. 1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iii. 85 By giving a fuller idea of righteousness, to reapply emotion to it. 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 9 706 The cup is placed over the abscess for five minutes, removed for five minutes and then reapplied. 2003 E. B. Powery Jesus reads Script. iii. 97 By reapplying the name Emmanuel here, Matthew uses it as a sign of hope, rather than one of judgment. b. transitive (reflexive). To apply (oneself) to a task, etc., again (see apply v. III.). ΚΠ 1678 J. Sergeant Of Devotion i. 9 We may observe the Soul, when by reflexion it comes to perceive them, rejects those Distractions, and reapplies it self..to what it was employ'd about before. 1724 R. Houstoun in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 388 She went chearfully Abroad, and re-apply'd herself to Business. 1831 Metropolitan 1 285 The Ethiopian..reapplied himself to his labor. 1853 C. A. Bristed tr. H. Murger Gypsies of Art in Knickerbocker Sept. 227 Marcel reäpplied himself to his Passage of the Red Sea, which had been on his easel nearly three years. 1939 E. V. G. Kiernan Brit. Diplomacy in China xiii. 201 O'Conor reapplied himself to his task much refreshed by the collapse of Möllendorf. 2007 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Feb. e19 It's nice to go back to something with three more years of life experience and reapply yourself to it. 2. intransitive. To make another application or request. Chiefly with for. ΚΠ 1862 Times 7 Apr. 11 Mr. Chambers now reapplied for a certificate to carry costs. 1890 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 5 12 This tendency of the ex-colonists to reapply for admission is one of the discouraging features of the work. 1958 Harvard Law Rev. 71 488 He could reapply to the court for further relief. 1997 Daily Mail 15 Jan. 28/5 The rules prevented the charity reapplying until 2000. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. a16/1 All tenured teachers had to reapply for jobs. Derivatives reaˈpplier n. ΚΠ 1885 W. F. Crafts Sabbath for Man 384 Knox seems to have been..the re-applier of the term ‘Sabbath’ to it. 2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Nov. pm 2 Double-dippers are people who will dunk a carrot stick into some creamy thing, bite into it and then plunge back in for a second dipping... Might the preponderance of chronic reappliers be one of the reasons veggie and nacho trays are becoming an endangered species in Toronto? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1605 |
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