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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: reclaim
reclaim
v 1: claim back [syn:
repossess]
2: of materials from waste products [syn:
recover]
3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of
life, conduct, and adopt a right one;
“The Church reformed
me”;
“reform your conduct” [syn:
reform,
regenerate,
rectify]
4: make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated
state;
“The people reclaimed the marshes”
5: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable;
“He
tames lions for the circus”;
“reclaim falcons” [syn:
domesticate,
domesticize,
domesticise,
tame]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Reclaim
Reclaim
\Re*claim"\, n.
The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed;
reclamation; recovery. [Obs.]
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Reclaim
\Re*claim"\ (r[=e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t.
To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt
to recover possession of.
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A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element
perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. --W. Coxe.
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Reclaim
\Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Reclaimed (r[-e]*kl[=a]md"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Reclaiming.]
[F. r['e]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out
against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See
Claim.]
1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a
certain customary call. --Chaucer.
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2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to,
for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
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The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along,
and were deaf to his reclaiming them. --Dryden.
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3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under
discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the
chase, but also of other animals.
“An eagle well
reclaimed.” --Dryden.
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4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor,
cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild,
desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild
land, overflowed land, etc.
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5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or
transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or
course of life; to reform.
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It is the intention of Providence, in all the
various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim
mankind. --Rogers.
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6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [Obs.]
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Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. --Sir
E. Hoby.
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7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.
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Reclaim
\Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. i.
1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim
against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
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Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church
reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it.
--Waterland.
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At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against
Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. --Bain.
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2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
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They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,
Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy.
--Milton.
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3. To draw back; to give way. [R. & Obs.] --Spenser.
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