reconvertn.
/ˌriːˈkɒnvəːt/, U.S. /ˌriˈkɑnˌvərt/ A person who has been converted for a second time, esp. to a particular religion.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone > a second time
revert1653
reconvert1701
retrovert1873
1701 R. Kingston Life W. Fuller i. 5 He exprest all the sorrow in the World for his being misled, and so shaking off his Romish Superstition as easily as he could shift his Linen, declared himself a penitent Reconvert.
1843 W. E. Gladstone in Foreign & Colonial Q. Rev. Oct. 574 She has made (we refer to the latter part of the sixteenth century) converts and reconverts by thousands—nay, even by millions.
1911 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. X. 120 By an oral declaration of Alexander II. the penalty was removed from receiving of..reconverts, and about 30,000 returned to the Lutheran Church.
1973 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 32 463 Shuddhi presented severe problems of social acceptance of the reconvert by his caste brotherhood.
2001 Church Hist. 70 530 Most reconverts were accused of being motivated by a desire to gain financial advantages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
reconvertv.
/ˌriːkənˈvəːt/, U.S. /ˌrikənˈvərt/ 1.
a. transitive. To convert (a person) back or again, esp. to a particular religion. Also occasionally intransitive.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > convert [verb (transitive)] > a second time
reconvert1649
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. 1209 So many..might have beene throughly wonne, and wholly conuerted to Christ, or might yet in the vnsearchable riches of gods mercies be reclaimed and reconuerted.
1649 tr. Alcoran 278 We..sent him to preach to more then an hundred thousand persons, that we reconverted.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iv. 159 About this time the East-Saxons, who..had..renounc'd the Faith, were by the means of Oswi thus reconverted.
1737 J. Wesley Jrnl. 25 May (1739) 42 I myself having known many Papists..re-converted.
1753 G. Whitefield True Nature Beholding Lamb of God 47 Who knows but the Cock may yet crow, Jesus may yet look, and such grievous Backsliders, being as it were reconverted, may appear more zealous than ever in strengthening their Brethren.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 647 In December ambition had converted him into a rebel. In January disappointment reconverted him into a royalist.
1882 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Fr. Lit. iii. vii He soon distinguished himself by reconverting a considerable number of persons to the Roman form of faith.
1935 PMLA 50 661 The Nuntius announces that Philologus had been reconverted to Protestantism before his death.
1968 D. Moraes My Son's Father v. 78 Tendulkar had spent some years in Russia, and had been a Communist, but when he returned to India, Gandhi had reconverted him.
1976 W. Katiyo Son of Soil ii. 32 The Rev Cope..succeeded in reconverting the boy's parents to the Christian religion.
2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians xviii. 275 Having returned to the Judaism of his forefathers, and dabbled in Islam and Shintoism, he was reconverted to Roman Catholicism at the end.
b. transitive. To convert (something) again, or back to a previous state.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)]
reversea1393
converta1425
undo1426
unmakec1450
recommencea1513
unweave1542
mismake1575
resubstantiate1584
unspin1587
remit1591
retrievea1596
remetamorphose1598
remorphize1603
reconvert1609
unlive1621
unravel1637
relapse1652
to bring about1680
uncoin1833
unpay1842
reset1846
revert1856
unweb1882
1609 A. Gardyne Garden Grave & Godlie Flowres sig. G Yet Death, nor this the Graue vnto the good, Nor should affright, no nor dismay them must, Albeit the boulke, the marrow, bons, and blood, They reconvert in Ashes, Earth and Dust.
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 17 Money; which being paid to the King, is again reconverted into corn.
1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 160 There will be no danger of it's re-converting the soil into a bog.
1784 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 427 The result was such as to afford a strong presumption that the air was re-converted into water.
1827 Lancet 6 Jan. 454/1 The undissolved portion..will..be reconverted into triple phosphate, in the form of small acicelar crystals.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xx. 474 The islanders in Jersey replaced much of their arable land by orchards. These have since..been re-converted.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 532/1 Paraldehyde is moderately soluble in water, and when distilled with sulphuric acid is reconverted into the ordinary form.
1967 Pop. Sci. Dec. 74/2 The ‘Transporter’..can convert matter into energy and ‘beam’ it to a fixed point, then reconvert it back into its original form. It is used for both crew and cargo.
1994 Canad. Def. Q. Mar. 38/2 Is it prudent to dispose of this aircraft, which could be reconverted to the baseline Polaris configuration, prior to the review?
2. transitive. Law. To change back again into something of equivalent value. Cf. convert v. 15.
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1798 F. Vesey Chancery Rep. III. 689 The testator..may pay the money, and get back the estate from the trustees; and they cannot refuse to convey. The Duchess therefore is entitled to take it as real estate. That will exclude the second question, whether the Duke had reconverted it into real estate.
1884 Sir E. E. Kay in Law Times Rep. 50 56/2 It does not decide that if the court or a trustee sell more than is necessary there is any equity to reconvert the surplus for the benefit of the heir-at-law.
1905 Harvard Law Rev. 18 11 As the land in question had been actually converted into money by the direction of its owner, equity had no right whatever to reconvert it into land.
1915 Virginia Law Reg. 21 195 Where land is sold under a deed of trust after the death of the grantor..equity is..necessarily converted by the sale into personalty in the nature of the proceeds, which in equity is reconverted into realty.
1998 Business Line (Nexis) 27 Sept. Domestic instruments cannot be converted into GDRs, nor can the GDRs be converted into underlying equity without sacrificing the freedom to reconvert it back into GDRs.
3. transitive. Logic. To transpose again the subject and predicate of (a proposition), spec. as a valid immediate inference (not breaking the rules of conversion). Cf. convert v. 4b.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > convert [verb (transitive)]
convert1638
turn1654
reconvert1849
contrapone1864
infinitate1864
contraposit1880
1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §53. 216 By the common rules, A is to be converted to I, and that can only be reconverted to I.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. 271 The proposition..was turned from a particular into a universal, as when we reconvert the proposition, Some animals are men, into the proposition, All men are animals.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 161 It is evident that, by reconverting the Converse, we ought to regain the Convertend.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 161 This is reconverted simply into ‘Some men are mortals’.
1914 C. Read Logic (ed. 4) vii. 84 If we convert A. to Y., thus—All S is P ∴ Some P is all S—we may reconvert Y. to A. without any loss of meaning.
Derivatives
reconˈverted adj.
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1689 T. Brown Mr. Haynes his Recantation-prol. (single sheet) For Reconverted Haynes (taught by the Age) Is now come back to's Primitive Church—the Stage.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) lxxx. xxiii King of a re-converted Land.
1867 in Christian Pamphlets 11 298 And now the reconverted pair went to work in earnest for the salvation of their neighbors.
1969 G. Baxt ‘I!’ said Demon vii. 78 The reconverted church in which the Grace Sisters resided was her current baby, and she meant to nurse, diaper and feed it until it outsurvived even herself.
2007 Irish Times 6 Oct. (Sport section) 1 Laporte's team selection—with a suddenly reconverted fullback in Damien Traille augmenting the battery of kickers..are going to kick the ball all right.
reconˈvertible adj. capable of being reconverted.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [adjective] > capable of being
reversible1632
returnable1654
remigrable1669
reconvertible1727
resettable1973
1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave New Method Chem. Index sig. C/1 [Gold,] Reconvertible into running mercury.
1822 Ld. Byron Let. 30 Dec. (1980) X. 74 If you will invest a thousand pounds for me in Exchequer bills or on other low but safe and easily re-convertible in to Cash Security I will return you Circulars for the amount.
1886 American 12 251 That these waves are reconvertible into heat.
1960 Science 5 Feb. 324/1 Transliteration must be unambiguous, accurately reconvertible, workable, and as simple as possible.
2003 Times 8 Mar. (Bricks and Mortar Suppl.) 8 Many people prefer to retain the stairs as part of their main dwelling, putting in a stud wall at basement level, thus providing themselves with additional storage and making the house easily reconvertible, should they wish to sell.
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