recultivatev.

1627 J. Howell Let. 9 July in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (1650) v. ii. 136 A field that remains fallow for a time..yeelds a better crop being recultivated.

1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. i. v. 73 With the grant of this liberty, they began to recultivate their Plantations.

?1731 Let. from Member House of Commons 36 I hope it will not be said that we have re-cultivated a Friendship, and renewed an Alliance with him on account of his having grown so formidable as the Writers on the other Side of the Question had represented him.

1793 Beawes's Civil Hist. Spain & Portugal I. v. 102 If the European mines were to be recultivated, those of America in their Turn would be neglected and lost.

1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe II. 331 Desolate scenes which the liveliest imagination were unable to recultivate and repeople.

1884 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 367 Cereals and hundreds of herbs have to be replanted, recultivated, and refertilized year after year.

1929 Olean (N.Y.) Times 7 Sept. 2/1 In spite of radios and wireless, cables and telephones, we are to recultivate the habit of our ancestors of writing graceful letters.

1960 Far Eastern Surv. 29 2 Of these [tenants] only 3,800 had recultivated abandoned land.

2004 E. Buettner Empire Families (2005) iv. 181 Other authors were less sanguine about the extent to which grown children and their parents could recultivate attachment after years spent apart.