The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reclaim \Re*claim"\ (r[-e]*kl[=a]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reclaimed (r[-e]*kl[=a]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclaiming.] [F. r['e]clamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.]
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
--Chaucer.-
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.
--Dryden. 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.''
--Dryden.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.
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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.
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To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [Obs.]
Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial.
--Sir E. Hoby. -
To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.]
--Fuller.Syn: To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of reclaim English)
Wikipedia
Reclaiming is an organization of feminist modern witchcraft, aiming to combine the Goddess movement with political activism (in the peace and anti-nuclear movements). Reclaiming was founded in 1979, in the context of the Reclaiming Collective (1978–1997), by two Neopagan women of Jewish descent, Starhawk and Diane Baker, in order to explore and develop feminist Neopagan emancipatory rituals.
Today, the organization focuses on progressive social, political, environmental and economic activism. Guided by a shared, "Principles of Unity, a document that lists the core values of the tradition: personal authority, inclusivity, social and environmental justice and a recognition of intersectionality".
Usage examples of "reclaiming".
In 1974, instead of reclaiming his roots by visiting Bursa, my father renounced them.
I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than Our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
From the panting switcher came a singular laugh that reached the ears of the two men who were reclaiming the rare metal discovered by Absalom Pettigrew.
We have marched from Vienne to Autun, from Auxerre to Troyes, routing the Alemanni and reclaiming Gaul for Rome and the Emperor.
Chances of reclaiming it would be greatly improved with Castellano out of the way.
Gretna, Cole led the roan into a stockcar of the train bound for Brashear City and the waiting army, then settled himself in a seat in the passenger car in hopes of reclaiming some of the sleep he had lost during the night.
Equatorial lagoons and archipelagoes, in pillaging the drowned cities, reclaiming the heavy specialised machinery such as electrical power generators and switchgear that had been perforce abandoned by the government.
He was proud of his idea, and he imagined the results being celebrated: Hardy Allbright, weathermaker, reclaiming this portion of America for Asfalt!
Dark weeds sprouted through collapsed stoops and stairways, and forest vines crept in and out of broken windows and chimneys as if the forest were reclaiming the town for its own.
You are here instructed to dismiss the latter's claim on the grounds of contributory negligence on her part, in the assumption of risk in providing her consent as evidenced at the time by 'her tearful gratitude that her son had been baptized and entered the waiting arms of the Lord in a state of grace,' and on the further grounds of her remarriages since the event, reclaiming her name as the boy's mother for the sole purpose of participating in this action.
By this time he ought to be busy reclaiming the river, but Patwin's betrayal was an offense that could not be overlooked.
This is the essence of their boundary-dissolving function, and 12 to 20 thousand years ago the ordinary style of human society was, as I said, nomadic pastoralism and psychedelic intoxication on a schedule that was very probably lunar, so reclaiming that orgiastic boundaryless style of sexual relating is part of what the archaic revival is about.
We were particularly desirous of reclaiming into the way of reason and nature, the deluded Christians who had renounced the religion and ceremonies instituted by their fathers.
The profligate lumbering operations that had stripped away so much of the Canadian forest earlier in the century were now at an end, and nature was fast reclaiming the remoter parts of the Cariboo and Chilcotin country.