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▪ I. recast, n.|riːˈkɑːst, -kæst|
[re- 5 a. Cf. next and cast n. VIII.]
An act or instance of recasting; the new thing or form produced by recasting.
1840De Quincey Homer v. Wks. 1857 VI. 386 Popular feeling called for a diaskeué, or thorough recast. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) III. xxx. 402 In the second recast of the imperial drama, Agrippa might seem to play the part of Brutus. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. 229 Not merely a revision, but an entire re-cast of the Statute.
▪ II. recast, v.|riːˈkɑːst, -kæst|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To cast or throw again.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xlviii. 155 In the middest of their running-race, [they] would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse. 1894E. Fawcett New Nero 17 He recast a sudden look upon Fanshawe and his face drearily brightened. 1899P. H. Wicksteed tr. Dante's Paradiso ii. 21 Now thou wilt urge that the ray here is darkened rather than in other parts, because here it is recast from further back.
2. a. To cast or found (metal) again. Also fig.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. i. vi. §9 Taking their terms from the common language,..recasting them in a mould of their own. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 156 They..would melt the bullion anew in order to recast it in the original mould. 1846Ellis Elgin Marbles II. 146 Recasting some articles of gold and silver. 1863Q. Rev. Jan. 275 To no purpose has the taxation..been recast in the moulds of their narrow philosophy.
b. To refashion, remodel, reconstruct (a thing, esp. a literary work, a sentence, etc.); to invest with new form or character. (Freq. in 19th c.)
1790Bp. T. Burgess Serm. Div. of Christ 28 The advocates of free inquiry have recast the annals of Christian antiquity. 1817Malthus Popul. (ed. 5) I. p. xiii, I have recast and rewritten the chapters. 1828Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 287/1 Young writers..should always attempt to recast a sentence which does not please. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXII. 63 Buonaparte recast the art of war. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxii. IX. 255 He sent Eteonikus to Thrace for the purpose of thus recasting the governments every where.
absol.1820Byron Let. to Murray 23 Apr., I can neither recast nor replace.
c. Theatr. To assign (an actor) to another part; to cast (a role, etc.) again. Also fig. Cf. cast v. 48.
1951N. Marsh Opening Night vii. 163 A lively and almost cosy discussion about recasting had developed. 1962L. Payne Too Small for his Shoes viii. 162 I'll have to recast the part and re-shoot every sequence he was in. 1979A. Scholefield Point of Honour 80 My father was recast as a hero..saviour of lives in the face of the enemy. 1981N. J. Crisp Festival vi. 143 Should the play..justify..a possible transfer to the West End, it will..have to be recast.
3. To compute over again, recalculate.
1865Neale Hymns on Paradise 48 Now the years of their affliction In their memory they recast.
Hence reˈcast ppl. a.; reˈcaster, one who recasts; reˈcasting vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1687in Harwood Lichfield (1806) 68 Towards the re⁓casting of the bells. 1857Gladstone Oxf. Ess. 27 All the recasting processes which have yet been tried. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 139 No re-casting..can adapt it to our psychological methods. 1884Athenæum 5 July 7/2 The original and the recast Carolingian poems and romances. 1888Edin. Rev. Apr. 510 These are only additions by the recaster of the narrative. |
