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1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 480 It will not be amiss to enquire..by what degrees they were repristinated and rendered in their former state.

1836 Biblical Repertory July 309 The Russian emperor was further resolved to repristinate the pretended discipline of the regulars.

1869 W. G. T. Shedd Homiletics 372 The practice of catechising children and youth should be repristinated in the American Churches.

1903 H. P. Smith Old Test. Hist. (1915) xiii. 256 The Nehushtan could not be restored because it had been wholly destroyed. But the local sanctuaries could be repristinated.

1946 French Rev. 19 172 Another august body..discovered abysmal ignorance of American history among college students. Could it not be repristinated, we wonder?

2000 B. L. McCormack in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 66/2 Barth had no interest in repristinating old theological traits of thought, though he sought to interpret them generously.

1844 P. Cooper Anglican Church ix. 235 To exhibit to the world your people radiant in faith, and in the lustre of repristinated morals.

1921 S. Cave Introd. Stud. Some Living Relig. of East iv. vii. 184 Among educated Japanese there are many who..still hope to find in a repristinated Buddhism a religion..adequate to modern needs and Western learning.

2006 I. Avotins in N. Wilson Encycl. Anc. Greece 350/1 This repristinated Greek was adopted by the state and by the educated in the Byzantine period.