Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

*c.1596-98 , ,

*:In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.

(lb) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.

(lb) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

*1526 , (William Tyndale), , Romans 12.2:

*:And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.

*, II.2.6.ii:

*:to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.

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*2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", , ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:

Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.

(lb) To begin again; to recommence.

*, IV.8:

*:Then gan he all this storie to renew , / And tell the course of his captivitie.

*1660 , (John Dryden), translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4''), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's '' Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II

*:The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.

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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

(lb) To repeat.

*1674 , (John Milton), :

*:The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.

To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.

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Verb

(en verb)

To join again; to unite after separation.

To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

* (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:

* , Episode 16

The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

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(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'

(archaic): To answer to a reply.

(legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

(patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).