单词 | rethink |
释义 | rethinkn. An act of rethinking, esp. one that leads to change; a reappraisal, a reassessment; (occasionally) a result of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > [noun] rethinking1579 second thoughts1581 recogitationc1591 reconsideration1606 after-wit1607 after-meditation1626 after-counsel1634 remeditation1642 afterthought1647 after-consideration1693 after-rumination1830 retake1922 rethink1958 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Sept. 511/2 Then came Mr. Khrushchev's speech at the Twentieth Party Congress and close behind it the great Communist re-think. 1968 New Scientist 8 Aug. 293/1 The need for a widespread rethink on attitudes in science education, particularly at university level. 1976 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts May 285/1 It is more difficult to apply the principles to famous modern buildings which look like a total rethink. 2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon v. 92 A complete editorial rethink had removed Biffo from the cover and replaced him with Dennis the Menace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rethinkv. 1. intransitive. To think again or further; to reconsider, (in later use) esp. with a view to amendment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > think again [verb (intransitive)] rethink1509 revise1567 recogitate1603 revert1794 reimagine1825 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) lxxi. sig. Q.viiiv Thynke and rethynke..whan thou takest ye ordre of preest hode, for thou ought not to receyue the ordre withoute consyderynge of dyuers thynges. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. ii. 370 A wise man in deliberating, thinketh and rethinketh, redoubting whatsoeuer may happen. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) i. i. 10 After he had long regarded the portraict, he began to rethinke on the meanes to gaine the originall. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. lxxiv. 265 Think, my dear, and re-think. 1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 213 She thought, re-thought—she rack'd her brain. 1808 J. Austen Let. 30 June (1995) 138 I cannot help thinking & re-thinking of your going to the Island so heroically. 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. vi. 148 You must think and observe; re-think and re-observe. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace xviii. 439 Not to recognise this and not to re-think accordingly means..not being sincere in support of a real League of Nations. 1968 H. L. Packer Limits of Criminal Sanction xvi. 307 One can rethink systematically only by proceeding as if the whole unwieldy apparatus did not exist and by resolving to begin afresh. 1995 V. Ramalingaswami in J. E. Rohde & H. Viswanathan Rural Private Practitioner Foreword p. vi The book forces society to rethink, the medical profession to introspect, and the policy makers to open a debate. 2. transitive. To think about (something) again; to reconsider (a situation, proposal, course of action, etc.), esp. in order to change or amend it; to reassess, reappraise. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > think again [verb (transitive)] reconsider1571 recogitate1602 reponder1613 re-ruminate1617 rethink1656 remeditate1852 revisualize1896 1656 E. Prestwich Hectors i. iii. 11 The fancie making absurd contradictions, whilst at one act it doth rethink things treasured up in different time and place. a1700 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. 163 All the pass'd Song distinctly he re-thought. 1716 E. Baynard Health 2 To think, and re think each Design. 1833 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 174 Having been re-thought and re-written since, it is much more beautiful. 1865 J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel I. 97 Hegel examined all, rethought all, and completed all. 1930 E. Bullough tr. E. Gilson in T. F. Burns Monument to St. Augustine ix. 292 St. Augustine had but re-thought and deepened, from the point of view of a Christian, the essential elements of Platonism. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 18 How can this disintegrating system be reintegrated on a new basis? One way of beginning to rethink our social framework is [etc.]. 1973 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 7/1 Mrs Thatcher last night promised to rethink methods of awarding grants to married women students. 2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Sept. r16/1 Satellite-TV providers..have forced cable operators to rethink their entire approach to the cable-television business. Derivatives reˈthinker n. ΚΠ 1882 A. Seth Developm. Kant to Hegel ii. 48 Most of the re-thinkers drifted away from the distinctively Fichtian method of statement. 1949 W. Moberly Crisis in Universities vi. 184 We need..not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. 1999 L. A. Rickels Vampire Lect. xxii. 281 William Godwin, the famous utopian rethinker and philosopher, whose projects..featured the..start of new races. reˈthought adj. ΚΠ 1959 Observer 18 Oct. 24/7 She was ready with a dash of classless glamour for the new rethought brand image. 1999 M. Anderegg Orson Welles, Shakespeare, & Pop. Culture ii. 20 He wanted to do it again, but with a difference: a different medium, a rethought setting, an altered context, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1958v.1509 |
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