reassociationn.

?1792 T. Bradshaw tr. Josephus Whole & Compl. Wks. v. viii. 92/1 The tribe to which they belonged would inevitably be destroyed if they longer persisted to oppose the desired re-association.

1882 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1880–81 19 584 The evidences of incessant dissociation and re-association in the solar photosphere, are so conclusive, that chemical action may be very properly regarded as an important source of specific solar magnetism.

1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist iv. 152 Dissociation in most cases is not complete;..now and again re-association of the parts [of the mind] occurs.

1953 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 2) 738/2 Reassociation, a process of renewed or refreshed association occurring in hypno~analysis of the war neurosis, during which the patient relives the traumatic event with emotional vividness.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) viii. v. 314/1 If the temperature during reassociation is between about 45 and 55°C, then a duplex DNA molecule will form, which may contain many mismatched base pairs.

1994 H. Gardner Surviving Millennium iv. 89 Both North and South Korea began to look toward reassociation, at the same time that the United States and Japan looked toward a rapprochement with the Soviet Union and China.