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Remade

Remade \Re*made"\ (r?-m?d"), imp. & p. p. of Remake.

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remade

vb. (en-past of: remake)

WordNet
remake
  1. n. creation that is created again or anew; "it is a remake of an old film" [syn: remaking]

  2. v. make new; "She is remaking her image" [syn: refashion, redo, make over]

  3. [also: remade]

remade

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Remade

The Remade are a fictional group of bio-engineered people in the novels and stories by China MiƩville set in the world of Bas-Lag. Bas-Lag itself is a mix of magic and technology, and the Remade are an example of this. They are usually criminals who are punished for their crimes by the addition or alteration of body parts, which may be either organic or mechanical, though the mechanical additions occur mostly in New Crobuzon. The Remade are extremely varied in nature, ranging from those who have had their legs or lower bodies replaced with steam powered engines, to others who have had animal and human body parts attached to them. The nature of the Remaking often reflects the nature of the crime: in Perdido Street Station, a man who stole a painting of a garuda (bird-man) was punished by grafts of feathers, non-functional wings, and a metal beak, to make him look like a grotesque parody of a garuda, while a man who would not give information on accomplices has his mouth 'erased'. There also tend to be "fads" for particular forms of remaking where such ironic punishments are not specified.

Because their new body parts sometimes grant them newfound abilities, Remade may serve specialized purposes in society, often as indentured servants and slaves. In Perdido Street Station, Remades with their heads twisted around and fitted with mirror helmets are used against the slake-moths, giant insects which could not safely be looked at directly, while Remade prostitutes cater to every form of sexual perversion.

Remaking is occasionally voluntary: the character Tanner Sack in The Scar is voluntarily Remade to be amphibious, fully accepting his punishment-inflicted tentacles. The Remade are treated as slaves in New Crobuzon, but in the floating city of Armada and aboard the Perpetual Train in Iron Council they come to be considered equals to the non-Remade or "Freeanole" (free and whole).

Not all Remade fit willingly into their low position in society. The fReemade are escaped Remade slaves who act either as brigands and bandits, or as terrorists and freedom-fighters. The most famous fReemade, Jack Half-a-Prayer, had a praying mantis's arm and was the leader of an urban terrorist group in New Crobuzon until he was Remade again before his public hanging and death.

Usage examples of "remade".

There were more than a score, tiny figures in grey, and they had dogs, and something expressing the smoke: an ironclad tower as tall as the tardy pulled by Remade horses.

And maybe he had succeededcould anyone be sure it was a militia bullet that had ended the Remade captive?

Passing the shops and pubs of Syriac he saw that he was seen, and knew that some who glanced at himthe woman here, the vodyanoi, the man or cactus-man, even the Remade therewere with the Caucus.

Made strange by their context, overthrowing rules: the crowds who would spit on the Remade would have sworn themselves to Half-a-Prayer.

It was the remains of a nashorn, a rhino ironclad and Remade into a veldt tank.

When they realised a New Crobuzon slave squad of Remade assassins was coming, the monks had waited for Tesh to send protection.

Every one of us here, and every one coming, the dustiest navvy, each clerk, each camp whore, each cook and horseman and each Remade, every one of us is a missionary of a new church and there is nothing that will stop holy work.

Man after man, Remade, cactus, comes with cart full of gypsum and gravelled earth and tips it from the new quay.

Here a woman working, because there are women among the Remade, a woman become a guttered pillar, her organic parts like afterthoughts.

There is a rapid thudding as sleepers are dropped and then a sound like something being sliced as girders unroll from a flatcar, crews Remade and whole picking them up with tongs, a baffling dainty motion, letting them down as sledge-wielding brawnies step in and timed as perfectly as an orchestra hammer the ties and rails.

The Remade were corralled, shovelled like meat animals onto barred trucks.

They slowed past a herd of cattle, mongrel, stringy and subtly Remade, a grex breed.

The Remade, with limbs become pistons and jackhammers, were deafened by their own labours.

Judah walks days, crosses a trestle bridge aswarm with workers and Remade brachiating from extending simian arms.

Does not the whole of the workforce, the overseers, the Remade, Wrightby himself, feel the same cold?