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Reclaim

Reclaim (reclaim)
v. t.(r***emacr]*kl1913 webster dictionarym")
Re*claim"
  1. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

    A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.


Reclaim

Reclaim (reclaim)
v. t.(r*kl1913 webster dictionarym")
Re*claim"
[imp. *** p. p. Reclaimed (-kl&amacr]md"); p. pr. *** vb. n. Reclaiming.] [F. ré]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamar
  1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
    Chaucer.
  2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

    The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. Dryden.

  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.
  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.
  5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

    It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. Rogers.

  6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
    [Obs.]

    Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. Sir E. Hoby.

  7. To exclaim against; to gainsay.
    [Obs.] Fuller.

    Syn. -- To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.


Reclaim

Reclaim (reclaim)
v. i.(r*kl1913 webster dictionarym")
Re*claim"
  1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

    Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. Waterland.

    At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.

  2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

    They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,
    Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy.
    Milton.

  3. To draw back; to give way.
    [R. *** Obs.] Spenser.

Reclaim

Reclaim (reclaim)
n.
Re*claim"
  1. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed] reclamation; recovery.
    [Obs.]













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