rebeginv.
/ˌriːbᵻˈɡɪn/, U.S. /ˌribəˈɡɪn/, /ˌribiˈɡɪn/ transitive. To begin again.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again
renovela1325
renewa1387
resumec1400
renove?c1425
anewc1440
reassume1472
to take again1474
take1477
reprise1481
recommencea1513
renovate1535
to take up1587
rebegin1598
reopen1756
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Ripigliare To rebegin a speech.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 150 Having landed the fresh forces..they re-began the fight.
a1661 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. G. Capriata Hist. Wars Italy (1663) x. 362 The hopes which they had given at Court of the easie, and speedy dispatch of the business, would not suffer the Governour to re-begin it.
1744 T. Birch Life Boyle 28 The smallest distraction, or heedlessness, constrains us to renew our trouble, and re-begin the operation.
1774 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Nov. (1778) Re-began to stir the fallow.
1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 407 The slaving, accumulating process rebegins.
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 May 623 Consuming solicitude rebegins, and continues up to the time the last bar is struck of that over-familiar air.
1930 W. H. Auden Poems 44 And love's worn circuit re-begun.
1952 K. Amis Let. 6 Nov. (2000) 297 Yes, you're quite right, I have re-begun The feeling, and sure 'tis me time it does be takin' up much of entirely.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 265 A group of us read from Finnegans Wake, aloud, in rotation, every Tuesday night for two years at our Joyce professor's house, rebeginning the text immediately when we reached the end.
Derivatives
rebeˈginning n.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > a fresh or new beginning
rebeginning1598
spring1605
new departure1839
restart1858
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Raccominciamento A rebeginning.
1768 A. Catcott Suppl. Treat. Deluge 24 It was necessary and proper that they should be destroyed, and begin again with man's re-beginning.
1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 636 A re-beginning, and another fall.
1991 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Dec. 36/2 We are witnessing not the end of history..but a rebeginning.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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