reimpregnate

English

Etymology

Verb

reimpregnate (third-person singular simple present reimpregnates, present participle reimpregnating, simple past and past participle reimpregnated)

(transitive) To impregnate again or anew.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
  the vigor of the Loadstone is destroyed by fire , nor will it be reimpregnated by any other Magnețe

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reimpregnate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)