reorganize (reorganiz)

t. [= F. réorg a niser; as re- + organize.] To organize anew; bring again into an organized state: as, to reorganize a society or an army. Also spelled reorganise. re-orient (re-ō'ri-ent), a. [ The life re - orient out of dust. Tennyson , In Memoriam, cxvi. 5080 repair) (rē-par′), v. t. [ Thenne them per our dyde doo repayre the chirches. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 164. Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire. Shak ., Sonnets, x. Milton, P. L., ix. 144. To repair his numbers thus impair'd. 2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; give indemnity for; make good: as, to repair a lo or damage. I'll repair the misery thou dost bear With something rich about me. Shak., Lear, iv. 1. 79. IMG:content-1972.png:[blocks in formation] Whan the Soudan vnderstode his malice, he caused the Holy Lande to be better repared and more suerly kept, for ye more disple sur of the Turke. Arnold's Chron ., p. 162. reparation see repair2, v.] 1. The act of betaking one's self to a (specified) place; a resorting. This noble march aunt heeld a worthy hous, For which he hadde alday so greet repair For his large e, and for his wyf was fair, That wonder is. Chaucer , Shipman's Tale, 1. 21. Lastly, the king is sending letters for me To Athens, for my quick repair to court. Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 1. 2. A place to which one repairs; haunt; resort. I will it be cleped the mountain of the catte, ffor the catte hadde ther his repeire, and was ther slain. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 669. Where the fierce winds his tender force a ail, And beat him downward to his first repair . Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 220. 3t. Probably, an invitation or a return. As in an evening when the gentle ayre Breathes to the sullen night a soft repaire. W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 4. ( Nares .) repairable (re-para-bl), a . [ repair1 + -able . Cf. reparable .] Capable of being repaired; reparable. It seems scarce pardonable, because 'tis scarce a repent able sin or repairable malice. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 65. ( Davies .) repairer (rē-pārʼėr), n . One who or that which repairs, restores, or makes amends. Sleep, which the Epicureans and others have represented as the image of death, is, we know, the repairer of activity and strength. Landor, Imaginary Conversations (Marcus Tullius and [Quinctus Cicero). IMG:content-1973.png:[blocks in formation] =Syn. 1. To mend, refit, retouch, vamp (up), patch, tinker (up). repairl (rē-par'), n. [Early mod. E. also re payer; Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Shak ., K. John, iii. 4. 113. We have suffer'd beyond all repair of honour. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, v. 4. It is not that during the period of activity [of the nerve ment = Sp. reparamiento = It. rip a ramen to,