reconstitutionn.
/ˌriːkɒnstᵻˈtjuːʃn/, /ˌriːkɒnstᵻˈtʃuːʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌriˌkɑnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n/ 1.
a. The action or an act of constituting something again; a restoration, re-establishment, or reconstruction.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again > constructing again > that which is constructed again
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reconstruction1795
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [noun] > re-formation
re-formationa1500
reworking?1608
reconstitution1853
1759 J. Ilive Scheme Employment Persons sent to Clerkenwell 73 On the presumption, that the worthy magistrates of Middlesex should come to a conclusion to reform and re-establish this gaol..then, on such reconstitution, it will be necessary to appoint a President.
1815 Times 21 Aug. 3/5 The Royal Army of La Vendée is still on foot. How far this is consistent with the late ordinances for the reconstitution of the army, we do not well understand.
1848 E. A. Poe Eureka 141 The regathering of..Matter and Spirit will be but the re-constitution of..God.
1853 J. S. Mill Grote's Greece in Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 542 Demanding a reconstitution of society from its foundations, and a complete renovation of the human mind.
1884 Littell's Living Age 161 62 On the re-constitution of the Abbey as a collegiate church.
1956 Nature 11 Feb. 264/2 A favourable start was made in the experiments on reconstitution of high-altitude woodlands at Moor House.
1991 Afr. Affairs 90 517 One proposal called for the reconstitution of the country along the boundaries of the colonial provinces.
2002 Frontline (India) 11 Oct. 6/1 Bush and Blair..also referred to certain satellite photographs indicating a reconstitution of WMD capabilities by Iraq.
b. In French criminal procedure: the action of going over the presumed details of a crime at the place where it was committed.
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1897 Daily News 13 Dec. 5/6 The two prisoners..were taken to the scene of the murder for the ‘reconstitution’ of the crime.
1919 A. N. Whitehead Enq. Princ. Nat. Knowl. ii. v. 66 The prisoner in the dock may be the man who did the deed. But the deed lies in the irrevocable past; only the allegation of it is before the court and perhaps (in some countries) a reconstitution of the crime.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 9 442 A reconstitution of the crime..often demonstrates to the accused or to a witness the absurdity of maintaining a false version of the facts.
1975 Times 17 Oct. 5/1 Jackie Pierkiewicz, a worker aged 25..killed the 19-year-old assassin of his father at a reconstitution of the crime.
2. The restoration of dehydrated or concentrated food, etc., to its original constitution by the addition of liquid.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [noun] > rehydration
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1920 Nat. Food Jrnl. 2 595/1 The Clauses..prohibiting the addition to milk of colouring matter or water, the reconstitution of milk [etc.]..will remain in force.
1945 ABC of Cookery (Min. of Food) xvii. 59 If dried eggs are used they may be added dry with the other dry ingredients and the water needed for reconstitution added with the mixing liquid.
2000 A. G. Mulgan Polit. of Agric. in Japan iv. 247 Typical processes include the drying and reconstitution of milk, butter and cheese manufacture, livestock slaughter, and the packaging of meat cuts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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