单词 | remigrate |
释义 | remigratev.ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > revert [verb (intransitive)] awendOE recommence1481 relieve?1510 turn1594 remigrate1601 to cast back1622 recounter1630 regress1650 retrovert1782 to turn round1802 retrogress1860 to turn back1886 U-turn1973 1601 Narr. Wondrous Creature in R. Chester Loves Martyr 173 Ought into nought can neuer remigrate. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋288 Whatsoever that is truly vital hath once degenerated..never remigrates again from the winter of its privation. 1680 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist (new ed.) ii. 126 The rest, which is incomparably the greater part of the Liquor, will remigrate into Phlegm. 2. intransitive. To migrate again or back. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > migrate [verb (intransitive)] > again or back remigrate1623 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Remigrate, to returne vnto his first dwelling. 1737 Universal Hist. II. i. xii. 242 Herodotus, Ptolemy and Justin..have called the Scythians, who remigrated into Asia by some names..which, upon closer examination, are found to have belonged to the Celtes or Gomerians. 1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 104 In autumn, the Deer, with the fawns bred during the summer, remigrate northward. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Dove—Turtle The Turtle visits the southern parts of England in the spring, and remigrates the beginning of September. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 40 It is not till..a sultan re-migrated from Tunis to the East, that Egypt once more found herself the seat of empire. 1922 Wilson Bull. 34 236 When it [sc. the nighthawk] remigrated southward in the fall its ranks had been enlarged by many individuals. 1991 Jrnl. Herpetol. 25 233/1 Of all the turtles seen in 1985, 43.5% subsequently remigrated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1601 |
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