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1652 tr. Choice Novels & Amarous Tales 139 The Water of Disdain sprinkled on the Furnace of Love, reinvigorates its ardor insteed of extinguishing it.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner sig. b* ^v I find they not only understand the Nature and Genius of the several Soils; but their usual Infirmities, proper Remedies, Composts and Applications to Reinvigorate exhausted Mould.

1722 W. Willymott tr. Thomas à Kempis Of Imitation of Christ iii. xxx. 267 Be thou renew'd and re-invigorated again in the light of my mercies.

1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 85 As a spacious Field, arrayed in chearful Green, relieves and re-invigorates the Eye.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. viii. 435 That rational reformer reinvigorated the episcopate.

1862 A. M. Hall Can Wrong be Right? II. 292 Sometimes his mind would return..and reinvigorate the body.

1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 13 441 It may fairly be anticipated, secondly that Pragmatism will prove a great tonic to re-invigorate a grievously depressed humanity.

1953 I. T. Hill Anc. City Athens iii. 26 New motives like chains of dotted lozenges, latticed or peaked triangles, rows of dots connected by tangents, did little to reinvigorate the exhausted style.

2001 C. Fiell & P. Fiell Design of 20th Cent. 111 Memphis was founded in Milan in 1981 with the aim of re-invigorating the Radical Design movement.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 162 All those reinvigorated Families [It. le Famiglie rinuigorate].

1798 A. Knox Ess. Polit. Circumstances Ireland 72 The disturbances in the North..were in fact the re-invigorated movements of the Society of United Irishmen.

1884 Swinburne in T. H. Ward Eng. Poets III. 281 The revived and reinvigorated Lotos-Eaters.

1996 M. Tanner End of Welfare viii. 181 Some people will undoubtedly remain poor, will still need a helping hand; a reinvigorated private charitable sector will provide the type of help they really need.