Reconstructed
[,rɪkən'strʌkt]
Definition
(adj.) adapted to social or economic change; 'a reconstructed feminist' .
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Examples
- Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples--mainly Semitic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, let us hope, when the Greek Empire is reconstructed, we will have a new Pindar, a new Sophocles, a new Plato. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Who would have believed in the mammoth, had not the huge beast been reconstructed by Cuvier? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The world began again after a deluge and was reconstructed out of the fragments of itself. Plato. The Republic.
- The name of _Clermont_ was changed to the _North River_ the following spring, and the reconstructed steamboat continued in regular service on the Hudson for a number of years. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Parts of these old machines were found and the wheel reconstructed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Leaving his artillery to follow when the bridge should be reconstructed, he pushed on with the remainder of his command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was subsequently reconstructed in London and run upon the streets of that city. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To be distinguished from synthetic gems are reconstructed stones, which (as yet only done with the ruby) are pieces of the natural stone fused together. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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