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Reclaim   /riklˈeɪm/   Listen
verb
Reclaim  v. t.  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. "A tract of land (Holland) snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy."


Reclaim  v. t.  (past & past part. reclaimed; pres. part. reclaiming)  
1.
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
2.
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. "The headstrong horses hurried Octavius... along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them."
3.
To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. "An eagle well reclaimed."
4.
Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
5.
To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. "It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind."
6.
To correct; to reform; said of things. (Obs.) "Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial."
7.
To exclaim against; to gainsay. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.


Reclaim  v. i.  
1.
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. "Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it." "At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton."
2.
To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. "They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, Grieving to see his glory,... took envy."
3.
To draw back; to give way. (R. & Obs.)


noun
Reclaim  n.  The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. (Obs.)





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"Reclaim" Quotes from Famous Books



... prosperity, to say, and to think, that God is our God, and that we are his people; but when he has given us over into the hands of our enemies, and turned, as it were, his back unto us, then, I say, still to reclaim him to be our God, and to have this assurance, that we are his people, proceeds wholly from the Holy Spirit of God, as it is the greatest victory of faith, which overcomes the world; for increase whereof, we ought ...
— The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. • John Welch, Bishop Latimer and John Knox
... to her. Her last commission to him was to convey to her eldest brother-in-law, the Count de Provence, her husband's ring and seal, that they might be in safer custody than her own, and that she or her son might reclaim them, if either should ever be at liberty. She gave Toulan also, as a memorial of her gratitude, a small gold box, one of the few trinkets which she still possessed, and which, unhappily, proved a fatal present. ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge
... Swedish Ministers declare that their respective Sovereigns will reclaim all vessels under their colors, going to or returning from America, which comply with the articles of the armed neutrality, and it has been hinted to me, that it was not difficult to obtain letters of naturalization for the crews of American vessels, ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various
... proved the Labours of the Stage, In striving to reclaim a vitious Age! Poets may write the Mischief to impeach, You care as little what the Poets teach, As you regard at Church what Parsons preach. But where such Follies, and such Vices reign, What honest ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn
... seemed almost as though the spirit of the past were waiting to receive them—waiting now, as it had waited a thousand years, patiently, inexorably, untiringly for those to come who should some day reclaim the hidden secrets in the crypt, once more awaken human echoes in the vault, and so redeem the world. "Waiting!" breathed Stern, as if the thought hung pregnant in the very air. "Waiting all these long centuries—for us! For you, Beatrice, ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England


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