restitute

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French restituer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin restituō (“replace, restore”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition.
2. (transitive) 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, 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, p. 266:

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

3. (transitive) To refund.
   • 2004, Brian Haig, Private Sector, →ISBN, 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: восстана́вливать (ru) (vosstanávlivatʹ)

To refund

• Finnish: korvata (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Noun

restitute (plural restitutes)

1. That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) restitūte

1. vocative masculine singular of restitūtus