rebracev.

1764 J. Fanch Paraphr. Psalms David 9 This is the God, whose living Power I feel Rebrace my Nerves, grown slack with Toils of War.

a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 133 A cause To arm the hand of childhood, and rebrace The slacken'd sinews of time-wearied age.

1835 J. H. Sealy Facts & Fictions iv. ix. 293 A brisk September morning, amidst the mountains,..calls the animating bloom into the cheeks, and rebraces the nervous energy.

1871 E. Bulwer-Lytton Coming Race ii. 7 With the morning my friend's nerves were rebraced.

1950 J. Stuart Hie to Hunters 149 Each year, after its exposure to the weather, it [sc. the platform] had to be rebraced and a few of the planks replaced.

1977 R. Ludlum Chancellor Manuscript (1985) 47 Suspended thirty-five feet above the ground, the man rebraced himself and tightened the safety strap.

2006 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. h8 If the screws are loose, they can be tightened, which will rebrace and fix the brackets into position.

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 540 Change of air I believe to be in most cases the most efficient of all remedies... I feel its effects myself always in..the rebracing of a bodily frame.

1947 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 11 May 9 a/3 The city engineer has prepared plans for complete rebracing of the wooden grandstand at city stadium.

1999 Calif. Constr. Link (Nexis) May (Retail section) 8 Re-bracing was accomplished by stiffening the permanent walls, rather than with conventional rakers.