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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reinstate \Re`in*state"\ (-st?t"), v. t.
To place again in possession, or in a former state; to
restore to a state from which one had been removed; to
instate again as to reinstate a king in the possession of
the kingdom.
For the just we have said already thet some of them
were reinstated in their pristine happiness and
felicity. --Glanvill.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reinstate
v 1: restore to the previous state or rank
2: bring back into its original existence or use "restore law
and order"; "reestablish peace in the region" [syn: {restore},
{reestablish}]
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