rehete

re- +‎ hete

rehete (third-person singular simple present reheteth, present participle rehetende, simple past and past participle reheted)

1. to cheer up, revive, cherish
   • c. 1370s, Unknown. The Romaunt of the Rose. 6508-10.

     Wolde I visyte and drawe nere;

     Him wol I comforte and rehete,

     For I hope of his gold to gete.

   • c. 1400, Nicholas Love, Incipit Speculum Vite Cristi, Westminster, 1494, Chapter 15,

     some songen in the stede of mynstrelsy that swete songe of heuen: and soo they reheteden and coūforted her lord as it longen to them with mykel Joye medled with cōpassion

   • c. mid-1400s, John Hardyng, The Chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in Metre, London, 1543, Chapter 162,

     Some bookes sayen, he poysoned was to dead

     Of plummes so syttyng at his meate

     In thabbey of Cistews at Swynsheade

     With whiche a monke, there hym did rehete

     Wenyng of God greate thanke to gette