reclaim
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim), Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪm
Verb
reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)
- (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
- (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
- (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
- (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
- Milton
- They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.
- Rogers
- It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
- Sir E. Hoby
- Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial.
- Milton
- (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
- Dryden
- an eagle well reclaimed
- Dryden
- (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
- Dryden
- The headstrong horses hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
- Dryden
- (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
- Waterland
- Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it.
- Bain
- At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
- Waterland
- (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
Related terms
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Translations
to return land to a suitable condition
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to recycle — see recycle
to return someone to a proper course of action
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to repossess
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to tame or domesticate a wild animal — see tame
Noun
reclaim (plural reclaims)
- (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
- (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
reclaim oblique singular, m (oblique plural reclains, nominative singular reclains, nominative plural reclaim)
Descendants
- English: reclaim
References
- reclaim on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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