repristinate

present singular third person repristinates · participle present repristinating · participle past repristinated · past repristinated

1. transitiveTo restore something to an older or original state.

   But while the past cannot be repristinated, either in doctrine or worship, neither can the present with impunity sever its connection with the past.

   1897, William Rupp, “The Liturgies of the Reformed Churches”, in Christian Worship, New York: Scribner, page 206

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   Persons lapsed lying under the censure of the Church thus, and so long, it will not be amiss to enquire how they spent their time in this interim, and by what degrees they were repristinated and rendred in their former state.

   1659, Hamon L’Estrange, “Annotations upon Chapter XI”, in The Alliance of Divine Offices, London: Henry Broom, page 319

   1753, uncredited translator, The Source, the Strength, and the True Spirit of Laws by Giovanni Cattaneo, London: Lockyer Davis, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 88, The sovereign Intelligence that produced all Things, and acts incessantly in Nature, to conserve, correct and repristinate or renew it, is therefore the sole Source of this universal Law […]

   1974, William F. Buckley Jr., United Nations Journal, cited in Mitchell S. Ross, The Literary Politicians, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978, p. 55, The press of the world would rivet its attention on the case the American deligate was making for human rights, repristinating the jaded vision of the international bureaucrats.