reconstructionn.

1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς Sig. E This Ephesia be Thy countries happie name,..As it was there so shall it now be framde, And thy faire virgine-chamber euer namde: And as in reconstruction of it there.

1770 W. Kenrick Acct. of Automaton 17 (heading) Remarks on the utility, reconstruction and improvement of the..machine.

1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ i. 60 It was theirs to decide..whether, from its ruins fragments were to be collected for re-construction of the political edifice.

1848 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy Past & Present II. iii. 7 It was mainly with these views that Manzoni laboured at the reconstruction of his country's creed.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xvi. 268 The process of reconstruction of solids is not permanent.

1900 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 20 122 Dionysos is..torn in pieces, but his dismembered condition seems to have vanished in the last scene—the caldron tale and a miraculous reconstruction must be interpolated.

1995 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 29 Mar. b3/5 The reconstruction of Main Street in downtown Annapolis began officially yesterday when a backhoe shovel crashed into the historic roadway and dozens of onlookers scrambled for souvenir bricks.

1784 J. Noorthouck Anderson's Constit. Free & Accepted Masons (new ed.) iii. ii. 155 In the upper part of the back ground, the re-construction of the city is represented.

1898 Times 20 Jan. 9/1 At a meeting of ratepayers of the Cripplegate Wards..the report of a committee appointed to consider schemes for the reconstruction of the area devastated by the recent fire..was submitted.

1925 A. Toynbee Surv. Internat. Affairs 1920–23 1.39 Austrian reconstruction (scheme drafted; protocols signed).

1925 A. Toynbee Surv. Internat. Affairs 1920–23 40 Hungarian reconstruction (collaboration decided on).

1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 172 All the women were free to return to their interrupted training, to resume their pre-war occupation or to help with the gigantic task of reconstruction.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera xvii. 170 Had the friendship remained at exactly this stage of reconstruction, I should have asked for nothing more.

1974 tr. A. Snieckus Soviet Lithuania 51 As soon as the Nazis had been expelled, the working people plunged into the task of reconstruction.

1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory x. 393 Since the middle 1980s this process has accelerated with dizzying, even unsettling speed, led by the Soviet Union itself, in which, under the slogans of ‘openness’ and ‘reconstruction’, something like a system of free electoral democracy as well as of free economic enterprise seems in process of establishment.

1861 De Bow's Rev. Jan. 106 Any remedy..looking either to a present pacification, or to a reconstruction of the Union, if unhappily it is now too late to prevent its dissolution, must be based upon the idea of the equality of sections as well as of States.]

1861 A. H. Stephens in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. I. ii. 47/2 So far as concerns States of the old Union, they will be upon no such principle of reconstruction as now spoken of.

1863 A. Lincoln Ann. Message 9 Dec. in Jrnl. House of Representatives U.S. 32 The suggestion in the proclamation as to maintaining the political framework of the States on what is called the reconstruction, is made in the hope that it may do good without danger of harm.

1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 34 After the war was over, and reconstruction completed, this same Southern political hierarchy came back into power in Washington.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 225/2 With the new order the American doctrine of the common school was sure to prevail. If the Southern people had been left to themselves it would have come, but Reconstruction brought it sooner than natural evolution would have developed it.

1917 Confed. Lit. (Boston Athenæum) Intro. p. viii If one could have been South during the war or during Reconstruction, one would have had an experience impossible to derive from historical documents.

1967 Freedomways 7 133 In history the horrors of slavery are watered down and sketchily covered so as not to enrage the complacent black student, while the period following Reconstruction is covered as if the Negro had strangely disappeared from the face of the earth.

2003 Cinema Jrnl. 43 94 The film's romanticization of the Klan must have obfuscated not only the historically remote events of Reconstruction in the South.

1866 Times 4 July 5/1 Their intention to call a general meeting for a reconstruction of the company with a view to a reduction of the liability of the shareholders.

1871 Law Rep. Equity Cases (Incorporated Council of Law Reporting) 12 504 A scheme for the reconstruction of a company under liquidation, by a transfer of its assets to a new company to be formed for the purpose.

1986 Times 20 May 34/1 (advt.) The successful candidate will ideally..have..post qualification experience in corporate and commercial law, including acquisitions, mergers and reconstructions.

2007 Investm. Advisor (Nexis) 2 Apr. Any reconstruction will provide the opportunity for dissenting shareholders to receive cash for their shares at a modest discount from net asset value.

1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 176 At present, the reconstruction of the primitive system of word-formation and inflection..is impossible; there are very few suffixes..whose original form can be regarded as determined.

1918 Mod. Lang. Notes 33 326 The reconstruction of Prim[ititve] Germanic..will hardly carry us back any further than about the first century or the beginning of our era.

1950 Language 26 6 (title) The Reconstruction of Proto-Romance.

1985 Language 61 498 The comparative method can be extended to the reconstruction of proto-tagmemes and proto-syntagmemes.

2003 B. Krishnamurti Dravidian Langs. v. 189 The Telegu forms are diagnostic for the reconstruction of the proto-suffixes.

1887 W. D. Morrison tr. E. Ferri Criminal Sociol. 191 A criminal trial is not only concerned with the direct perception of facts, but also and especially with their critical reconstruction.]

1913 Times 30 Oct. 7 Professor Kadian, a very eminent surgeon, agreed with M. Pavloff and much impressed the Court by his skilful reconstruction of the crime.

1963 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 19 Apr. 9/5 The manual's ‘What To Do’..method covers..skidmark measurements photography, speed estimates, accident reconstruction, [etc.].

2002 G. A. Davis in M. A. P. Taylor Transportation & Traffic Theory in 21st Cent. 250 Accident reconstruction is most commonly employed to support legal proceedings, but on occasion it has also been used in safety research.