rediscoverv.

1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 794 This Prouince is called by vs English, New found land; and was rediscouered by some of our Captaines, 1527.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 280 Some may conceive it called Wellingborough, from a sovereign Well therein anciently known, afterwards obstructed with obscurity, and re-discovered in our days.

1752 T. Salmon Universal Traveller I. Introd. 4 The Continent of America was rediscovered about 250 Years ago.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iii. iv. 229 Tycho Brache rediscovered the same lunar inequality.

1883 Cent. Mag. July 417/1 He has been re-discovered and eulogized afresh.

1929 L. F. Zwarg Study of Hist. Apparatus Physical Educ. i. 81 Many odd contrivances [of physical education apparatus] of former years have disappeared entirely, others have from time to time been rediscovered or reinvented.

1964 Rev. Eng. Stud. 15 98 Every generation has to rediscover in its own terms what was taken for granted by its predecessors.

2006 F. S. Foster in J. C. Collins Curse of Caste p. viii William L. Andrews and Mitch Katchun do not claim to be the first to have rediscovered The Curse of Caste.

1823 Eclectic Rev. Aug. 149 The enterprising and accurate re-discoverer of lands long reported inaccessible.

1935 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 15 344 Reviver of an institution for training in the practical arts, rediscoverer and vitalizer of the history of his state.

1998 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 3 Oct. 4 Audio and video tape formats change so rapidly that any future re-discoverer would have to raid a museum for a suitable playback device.