reslay

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verb

To slay again.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbreslay (third-person singular simple present reslays, present participle reslaying, simple past reslew, past participle reslain)

present singular third person reslays · participle present reslaying · past reslew · participle past reslain

  1. transitiveTo slay again.

    They delight to refight the battles and reslay the slain.

    1859, Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, page 665
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    In this paper I propose to say something about the attempt of the Baconian theorists to "work" Ben Jonson over into a witness against William Shakespeare, not because it is necessary to reslay the slain Baconian, but to illustrate that here as elsewhere, and all along the line, there is "nothing in it."

    1891, Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakespearian Literature, page 195

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