redintegrate

English

Etymology 1

From the Latin redintegrō (“I restore or renew; I refresh or revive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/, /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹeɪt/

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Verb

redintegrate (third-person singular simple present redintegrates, present participle redintegrating, simple past and past participle redintegrated)

1. To renew, restore to wholeness.
   • 1974, Robert Boyle, The Development of the Chlorinity/Salinity Concept in Oceanography:

     Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated

2. (psychology, of a stimulus element) To reinstate a memory by redintegration.
   • 1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 44:

     His [David McClelland’s] theory is that we are first of all presented with cues in affective situations; for instance, sugar is put in the mouth and this produces pleasurable affect. This type of cue then becomes paired with an affective state in such a way that the cue will, as a result of association, come to ‘redintegrate’ the affective state first associated with it.

Translations

restore to wholeness

• Bulgarian: възстановявам целостта на (vǎzstanovjavam celostta na)

psychology: reinstate a memory by redintegration

Etymology 2

From the Latin redintegrātus (“restored or renewed”, “refreshed or revived”), the perfect passive participle of redintegrō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛˈdɪntɪɡɹət/, /ɹɪˈdɪntɪɡɹət/

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Adjective

redintegrate (not comparable)

1. Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     Charles the Eighth, the French king , by the virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh , his grandfather , and Lewis the Eleventh , his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate than it had been of many years before ; being redintegrate in those principal members

Translations

restored to a perfect state

• Bulgarian: обновен (bg) (obnoven)

Related terms

• redintegration
• redintegrative

Anagrams

• reintegrated

Latin

Verb

redintegrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of redintegrō