† revincev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To refute, disprove.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)]
answerOE
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to bear downc1405
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reverse?c1430
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unreason1661
have1680
demolish1691
to blow sky-high1819
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 254/2 The king..effectually reuinced and confuted the..pestilent boke of Luther.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 976/2 When he shoulde see his errour by manifest & sound testimonies of scriptures reuinced.
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iv. i. 178 The opinion of Copernicus,..because it is not repugnant to the Phœnomena, cannot be revinced by Astronomicall Principles.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 44 As if Astrology were a close and cunning Faculty, and afraid..to be revinced by ordinary experience.
2. transitive. To restore (a person) to a possession.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > restore to legal rights [verb (transitive)] > restore to a possession
revince1584
1584 Sc. Acts James VI (1814) III. 355/2 [The king] ordinis the saidis personis... to be consolidat and revincit, likas his hienes consolidatis and revincis thame to the saidis benefices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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