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verb

Regenerate v. t.

To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to. "Through all the soil a genial fferment spreads. Regenerates the plauts, and new adorns the meads."

(Theol.) To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.

Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.

adjective

Regenerate adj.

Reproduced. "The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up."

(Theol.) Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.

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Etymology of 'Regenerate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Regenerate" Quotes from Famous Books

... images cover spots,[190] says the wise man; when we hide our spots, we become idolators of our own stains, of our own foulnesses. But if my spots come forth, by what means soever, whether by the strength of nature, by voluntary confession (for grace is the nature of a regenerate man, and the power of grace is the strength of nature), or by the virtue of cordials (for even thy corrections are cordials), if they come forth either way, thou receivest that confession with a gracious interpretation. When thy servant Jacob practised an invention to procure spots in his sheep,[191] ...

— Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Together with Death's Duel • John Donne

... the isomerism of the aldoximes see OXIMES.) The hydrazones are crystalline substances which are of value in the characterization of the aldehydes. Both oximes and hydrazones, on boiling with dilute acid, regenerate the parent aldehyde. The hydrazones are best prepared by mixing the aldehyde with phenylhydrazine in dilute acetic acid solution, in the absence of any free mineral acid. Semioxamazid, NH2.CO.CO.NH.NH2, has also been employed for the identification of aldehydes (W. Kerp and K. Unger, ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... Malory's Arthur is by no means "the blameless king" of Tennyson, who makes of him a nineteenth-century ideal of royal knighthood, and finally an allegorical type of Soul at war with Sense. The downfall of the Round Table, that order of spiritual knight-errantry through which the king hopes to regenerate society, happens through the failure of his knights to rise to his own high level of character; in a degree, also, because the emprise is diverted from attainable practical aims to the fantastic quest of the Holy Grail. The sin of Lancelot ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... the world at a time when the evils of slavery were probably at their worst. He did not directly condemn slavery, and the reason of this is to be found in the study of the nature of His mission. He came to regenerate the individual, and not, primarily, society. "His language in innumerable similes showed that He believed that those principles He taught would only be successful after long periods of time and gradual development. Most of His figures and analogies in regard to 'the Kingdom ...

— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... odds and fearful obstacles against which they would have to contend. The debauched masses who had been molded and kneaded by the plastic touch of slavery into such base uses, were the only possible material from which recruits could be drawn for a great party of the future, which should regenerate our politics and re-enthrone the love of liberty; and this should be remembered in estimating the courage and faith of the men who in that dark hour held aloft the banner of freedom, in spite of all temptations to go with ...

— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian

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