resubject

present singular third person resubjects · participle present resubjecting · participle past resubjected · past resubjected

1. transitiveTo subject again.

   Is it, that Congress shall resubject to their control those thousands of deeply wronged men?

   1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

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   All this time France was substantially as tranquil as England herself, and decidedly more prosperous, though annoyed and impeded by the incessant plottings of traitors in her councils and other exalted stations to resubject her to kingly sway.

   1851, Horace Greeley, Glances at Europe

   “And if the apartment has been deregulated, using a rent-stabilized lease form, or charging less than $2,000 a month, doesn’t resubject the apartment to regulation.”

   2008 July 13, Jay Romano, “Can a Landlord Remove a Tenant’s Door Lock?”, in New York Times