remanv.
/ˌriːˈman/, U.S. /riˈmæn/ 1. transitive. To equip (a fleet, ship, fortified position, etc.) with another crew, defensive force, etc.; to serve or defend (a gun or other piece of equipment) a further time.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (transitive)] > equip (fleet) with fresh crews
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > man > anew
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1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada iii. 158 The rest of the Fleete, having recovered as many as they could, returned to fight, mounting up the Admirall a-sterne, to re-man her [It. rinforzarla], whose men to the two third parts and more lay slain.
1666 London Gaz. No. 77/3 To Re-man our Fleet,..resolution is taken of reducing 20, or 25 Companies of Foot.
1729 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers II. xvi. 597 Forty five vacant Births in his other more important Prize were re-manned with those New-Comers.
1782 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. (new ed.) III. iv. 84 The French, seeing things in this confusion, brought too, and lay by their own disabled ship, re-manned her, and took her in tow.
1804 J. Larwood No Gun Boats 11 One will refit, revictual, and re-man his forests of Flotillas.
1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. 408 For a moment the citizens hesitated to re-man the guns.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lxi. 516 These last five [triremes] had been re-manned with Chian crews.
1913 Times 1 July 17/4 The Kleinfontein is now almost fully remanned by non-unionists.
1950 Geogr. Jrnl. 115 145 In January 1946 the three bases already existing were remanned and restocked and a new base established on Laurie Island in the South Orkneys.
2006 J. R. Bruning Devil's Sandbox v. liv. 247 At one point, Tuttle and John Michael felt the sniper's wrath when he put a bullet right over their head as they remanned one of the M420s.
2. transitive. To make manly or courageous again; to make again into a man. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)]
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to lift (up) a person's spirits1711
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to make a man of1722
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1715 L. Theobald Persian Princess v. i. 52 Conflicting Rage Distends each Sinew; and remans my Soul.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 94 Re-man your breast; I feel no such remorse.
1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 166 First unmanning and then re-manning ourselves, each to serve a turn.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. xi. 2393 Un~manned, remanned:..With something changeless at the heart of me To know me by.
1992 Feminist Stud. 18 540 If Jack was unmanned by his gayness, his gayness can now, in turn, be remanned with the appearance of Beebo.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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