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reconstruct, v.|riːkənˈstrʌkt|
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. reconstruire (1549).]
1. trans. To construct anew.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. iii. xxxi. 492 It seemed no blameable attempt to reconstruct the whole afresh from the very ground. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 117 He saw that it was necessary to reconstruct the army of the Parliament. 1861Smiles Engineers II. 31 Having made up his mind that the lighthouse could only be reconstructed of wood. 1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. i. 173 Each [party] in its way supposed that it had a mission to re⁓construct society.
2. To construct anew in the mind; to restore (something past) mentally; spec. in Philol., to reform hypothetically (part of) a protolanguage by deduction from (later) recorded languages.
1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lv. 1 It may not be impossible..to reconstruct the true character of Tiberius. 1862Tyndall Mountaineer. ii. 11 He must regard the facts, discern their connection, and out of them reconstruct the world gone by. 1917Science Progr. XI. 682 Not only is the past retrieved in fragments; in some museums and exhibitions, and to a certain extent in historical plays, it is actually reconstructed. 1930Language VI. 164 It is a well-known fact that it is impossible to reconstruct a complete paradigm of Indo-European personal pronouns. 1965Ibid. XLI. 19 The younger protolanguages which we can reconstruct within the Indo-European family..cannot be placed in an indentical frame of reference with Proto-Indo-European. 1976E. Maclaren Nature of Belief ii. 11 We can reconstruct how the process must have gone on.
Hence reconˈstructable, -ible adjs., capable of being reconstructed.
1961Webster, Reconstructible. 1965Language XLI. 19 [Proto-Indo-European] is reconstructible only on the basis of internal evidence. 1978Ibid. LIV. 285 Morphology is harder to recapture, and syntax is even more slippery—if indeed it is reconstructable at all beyond a rather shallow level. 1978Nature 13 Apr. 605/2 By using chronologies recording different elements of climate a greater range of climatic variables will be reconstructable. |
