reimpregnatev.
/ˌriːˈɪmprᵻɡneɪt/, /ˌriːɪmˈprɛɡneɪt/, U.S. /ˌriᵻmˈprɛɡneɪt/ transitive. To impregnate again.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > render productive [verb (transitive)] > again
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > impregnate > again
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 68 The vigor of the Load~stone is destroyed by fire, nor will it be reimpregnated by any other Magnete then the earth. View more context for this quotation
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 496 Tis the Air, that in seven years fully reimpregnates the earth heap't up in the shade whence Nitre was before extracted.
1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm iv. 45 The Caput Mortuum, from whence spirits are Extracted, being exposed to the Air, and kept from Rain, are Re-impregnated again from the Air, with Spirits of the same Kind.
1788 A. Fothergill Exper. Inq. Cheltenham Water 71 In order..to preserve a chalybeate water in its full efficacy, it is necessary to re-impregnate it occasionally with iron.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 340 Iron..can be reimpregnated with carbon, to a certain extent, without materially injuring its malleable properties.
1879 Med. Times & Gaz. 23 Aug. 218/2 This price can be greatly reduced by boiling the gauze that has been used, and reimpregnating it.
1902 G. Mann Physiol. Histol. xxi. 274 The tissue was re-impregnated in the osmium–bichromate mixture for five to six days.
1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 29 But still the stones seemed rocked, the unsterile mounds, reimpregnated, exhaled dust's fever.
2008 Malaria Jrnl. 7 88 Most of the participants did not know whether the bed nets were impregnated [with insecticide] or not, and whether or not they needed to be reimpregnated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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