reslay

English

Etymology

re- +‎ slay

Verb

reslay (third-person singular simple present reslays, present participle reslaying, simple past reslew, past participle reslain)

1. (transitive) To slay again.
   • 1859, Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, page 665:

     They delight to refight the battles and reslay the slain.

   • 1891, Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakespearian Literature, page 195:

     In this paper I propose to say something about the attempt of the Baconian theorists to "work" Ben Jonson over into a witness against William Shakespeare, not because it is necessary to reslay the slain Baconian, but to illustrate that here as elsewhere, and all along the line, there is "nothing in it."