reclaim

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim), Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkleɪm/, /ɹiːˈkleɪm/, /ˈɹiːkleɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm

reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)

1. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
2. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
3. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
4. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
   • Milton

     They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.

   • Rogers

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

   • Sir E. Hoby

     Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial.

5. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
   • Dryden

     an eagle well reclaimed

6. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
   • Dryden

     The headstrong horses hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

7. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
   • Waterland

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

   • Bain

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

8. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

9. (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

• reclamation
• claim

reclaim (plural reclaims)

1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].

3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

• Maricle, Miracle, Ramciel, car mile, claimer, miracle

reclaim m (oblique plural reclains, nominative singular reclains, nominative plural reclaim)

1. reputation

• English: reclaim

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