Meaning

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use..

Definitions by Sense

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.
5. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
6. (transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
7. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
8. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

Example Sentences

His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.

Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

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

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

an eagle well reclaimed

They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him

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

Word Forms

• reclaims
• reclaiming
• reclaimed

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