restitute

English

Verb

restitute (third-person singular simple present restitutes, present participle restituting, simple past and past participle restituted)

1. (transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition or to provide recompense for (something).
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:

     . . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .

   • 1966, Anaïs Nin, Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005, p. 28:

     What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.

   • 1980, Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, ISBN 9780801491856, p. 266:

     [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.

2. (transitive) To refund.
   • 2004, Brian Haig, Private Sector, ISBN 9780446613934, p. 31:

     We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.

Related terms

• restitution

Translations

To restore or return to former condition

Romanian: restitui (ro)

Russian: восстанавливать (ru) (vosstanavlivat')

To refund

Finnish: korvata (fi)

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Latin

Participle

rēstitūte

1. vocative masculine singular of rēstitūtus