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reclaiming |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reclaim \Re*claim"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reclaimed}; p. pr & vb n. {Reclaiming}.] [F. r['e]clamer, L. reclamare reclamatum to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See {Claim}.] 1. To call back as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call --Chaucer. 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action to call to for the purpose of subduing or quieting. The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along and were deaf to his reclaiming them --Dryden. 3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. ``An eagle well reclaimed.'' --Dryden. 4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like as to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. --Rogers. 6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things [Obs.] Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. --Sir E. Hoby. 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] --Fuller. Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.
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