rehete

Middle English

Etymology

re- +‎ hete

Verb

rehete (third-person singular simple present reheteth, present participle rehetende, rehetynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle reheted)

1. to cheer up, revive, cherish
   • c. 1370s Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 6508-10.

     Wolde I visyte and drawe nere;

     Him wol I comforte and rehete,

     For I hope of his gold to gete.

   • c. 1400 Nicholas Love, Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi, Westminster, 1494, Chapter 15,^[1]

     some songen in the stede of mynstrelsy that swete songe of heuen: and soo they reheteden and coūforted her lord as it longen to them with mykel Joye medled with cōpassion

   • c. mid-1400s John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, London, 1543, Chapter 162,^[2]

     Some bookes sayen, he poysoned was to dead

     Of plummes so syttyng at his meate

     In thabbey of Cistews at Swynsheade

     With whiche a monke, there hym did rehete

     Wenyng of God greate thanke to gette