Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To restore to the pristine or first state or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To restore to an original state.
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- verb transitive to
restore something to an original state
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Examples
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Few Renaissance humanists intended to repristinate the thought forms of antiquity, and fewer still can be said seriously to have adhered in any religious sense to the pagan mythologies so ubiquitous in their works.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968
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"The few subsequent endeavors, tentative and half-hearted, to repristinate my venery were foredoomed, partly because I had feared they were, to failure: erection was incomplete, ejaculation without pleasure.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
pavonine commented on the word repristinate
To restore as to an original state;to revive
November 5, 2007