re-member

See also: remember

English

Etymology

re- +‎ member

Verb

re-member (third-person singular simple present re-members, present participle re-membering, simple past and past participle re-membered)

1. (uncommon) To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered.
   • 1973, Kenneth John Criqui, Dreams of the Swift Queen Turning Back on Herself Through the Gates, page 35:

     This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is  ...

   • 1988, Christine Downing, Psyche's Sisters: Reimagining the Meaning of Sisterhood, HarperCollins:

     Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.

   • 1998, David Germano, “Re-Membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic of China”, in Melvyn C. Goldstein, Matthew Kapstein, editors, Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet, pages 53–94:
   • 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

     To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

   • 2020, Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard, “Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, in Alan Bleakley, editor, Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities, Routledge, →ISBN, part IV (Medicine as performance and public engagement):

     This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.

Alternative forms

• remember

Anagrams

• remembre