redeterminev.
/ˌriːdᵻˈtəːmᵻn/, U.S. /ˌridəˈtərmən/, /ˌridiˈtərmən/ transitive. To determine again or differently.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > assure, make certain [verb (transitive)] > make firm, establish > again
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rappoincter,..to redetermine, redecree.
1698 V. Alsop Vindic. Faithful Rebuke 46 He can shift his Sails as the Wind Veres, and Determine and Undetermine, and if need be Re-determine the Controversie over and over.
1773 'Twas Wrong to marry Him I. 112 His behaviour was painted by him in so ridiculous a light, that she re-determined to have nothing more to do with him.
1828 Herschell in Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. III. 197 [A star] as since observed, and the place &c. redetermined.
1862 J. W. Draper Intell. Devel. Europe (1864) I. iv. 91 To redetermine their boundaries after the subsidence of the flood.
1932 Times 4 Mar. 19/3 He especially devoted himself to redetermining Joule's law of the mechanical equivalent of heat.
1960 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 7 Jan. ii. 11/7 The case now goes back to the commission to re-determine the amount of the compensation award.
2006 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 Sept. 6 The jail term was later redetermined to 22 years.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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