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Rehabilitated

Rehabilitate \Re`ha*bil"i*tate\ (r?`h?*b?l"?*t?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rehabilitated (-t?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Rehabilitating.] [Pref. re- re- + habilitate: cf. LL. rehabilitare, F. r['e]habiliter.] To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.

Restoring and rehabilitating the party.
--Burke.

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rehabilitated

vb. (en-past of: rehabilitate)

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rehabilitated

adj. (of persons) restored to health or useful life; "rehabilitated prisoners"

Usage examples of "rehabilitated".

The Speaker of the House, who had suffered a stroke in November and been rehabilitated at the Radhakrishnan Institute in California, was declared to be medically incapacitated - the document stating so was already drawn up inside the black envelope.

This was a law requiring every prisoner to be completely rehabilitated before being released.

Nobody had been declared rehabilitated because the rehabilitators had all been arrested.