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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
reclaim
v 1: claim back [syn: reclaim, repossess]
2: reuse (materials from waste products) [syn: reclaim,
recover]
3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of
life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed
me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim,
regenerate, rectify]
4: make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated
state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"
5: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He
tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn:
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim,
tame]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Reclaim \Re*claim"\, n.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed;
reclamation; recovery. [Obs.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[=e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t.
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt
to recover possession of.
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A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element
perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. --W. Coxe.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Reclaimed (r[-e]*kl[=a]md"); 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.
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2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to,
for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along,
and were deaf to his reclaiming them. --Dryden.
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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.
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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.
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5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or
transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or
course of life; to reform.
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It is the intention of Providence, in all the
various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim
mankind. --Rogers.
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6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [Obs.]
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Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. --Sir
E. Hoby.
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7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. i.
1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim
against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
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Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church
reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it.
--Waterland.
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At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against
Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. --Bain.
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2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
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They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,
Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy.
--Milton.
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3. To draw back; to give way. [R. & Obs.] --Spenser.
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6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
RECLAIM. To demand again, to insist upon a right; as, when a defendant for a
consideration received from the plaintiff, has covenanted to do an act, and
fails to do it, the plaintiff may bring covenant for the breach, or
assumpsit to reclaim the consideration. 1 Caines, 47.
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Thesaurus Results for reclaim:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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