_restore_
Verb.
Pronunciation
and accent: rɪˈstɔə(r).
It is dated from
the end of 1200.
Etymology: from Old French restorer (now restaurer), and
this one from Latin restaurare (= restore,
renew). It is analysed into re- (= again) + staurare (only in verbal combinations with
the implication of to place, fix, establish).
It is identical to Spanish restaurar, Italian ristorare, and French restaurer.
Third-person
singular simple present: she/he restores.
Preterite tense, preterite
participle: restored.
Present
participle: restoring.
1. To
give back (something of which one has been dispossessed or which was previously
lost); to make restitution of.
Antonyms: to destitute, deprive.
Translation: restituir, in Spanish; restituire, in Italian; restituer, in French.
[…] Lord Vaughan sauntered into the conservatory with Edith leaning on
his arm. They were in […] conversation, and came direct to us, the lady
appealing to me with a mixture of playfulness and earnest to induce her partner
to restore some flowers which
he had stolen from her bouquet.
Menella Smedley… The maiden aunt
["] I must have a reward of five thousand pounds immediately
offered, and printed papers published to that effect throughout the country
[…]." She went on with increasing energy, "Five thousand pounds to
anyone who will restore that child alive
[…]."
Anne Marsh- Caldwell… Castle Avon
[…] lowering his voice to a whisper he said, "And let me advise
you, if you would avoid exposure and condign punishment, to restore me the diamond brooch you
robbed me of that evening."
William Russell… Recollections…
Grant me the request, the very small request I make. Restore me my belt with its pockets.
The Leisure Hour, vol. 42
Candish
summoned all the caçiques of this island, and an hundred more, who had paid him
tribute, and then revealed to them all, when assembled, that he and his men
were Englishmen, and the greatest enemies the Spaniards had in the world. At
the same time he generously restored them, in money, the value of
all the tribute they had paid to him, in hogs, cocoa-nuts, potatoes, and the
like.
Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels
Though
I had determined to restore the canoes which had been
detained to their owners, it had not yet been done.
Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels
Gregorio
Castaneda, whom he employed on this occasion, defeated the Peruvian commander,
Juan Zurita, the author of the dismemberment, and restored that country to the authority
of the governor of Chili.
Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels
2. To cause (a person or
thing) to be back to a previous or original state.
Synonym: reinstate.
-) With the
preposition to + noun
of the restored state:
[My venerable friend] procured a
ladder, and, mounting to the spot where the bird was suspended, opened the
cage, took out the prisoner, and restored him to liberty and to his parent,
who, with notes of great exultation, accompanied his flight to the woods.
Alexander Wilson… American ornithology
This restored her to some degree of confidence.
Amelia Opie… Simple tales
This was an act of rebellion against his commander in chief; it
consequently restored her to all her implacability; and
she trembled with impatience till the counsel for the crown opened the
prosecution.
Amelia Opie… Simple tales
[…]
the young Polish lady, though feeble, had been restored
to
consciousness.
Willie Triton… The fisher boy
[…]
she requested him to transfer his residence to the disorderly capital, and
endeavour to restore it to tranquillity.
William Prescott… History of the reign of Philip…
[…] on carefully removing the tarnish by chemical means, the picture is restored to all its original beauty.
Alfred Brothers… Photography…
… she
restored her breasts to their purity with soap and water…
Walter… My Secret Life
-) With the
preposition from + noun
of the state previous to the restoration:
[…]
six persons were restored from misery to happiness.
John Graham… Speeches…
I stripped off my clothes, and leaped from a rock into the sea. But the
chill of waves, scarcely restored
from
a solid to a liquid form,
almost paralysed me, and I was glad to scramble back to land.
James Abbott… Narrative of a Journey…
-) Reflexively:
She
looked Annie in the face with eyes superficially expressive of indignant
surprise, and Annie perceived that she wished to restore
herself in
her own esteem by browbeating some one else into the affirmation of her
innocence.
William Howells… Annie Kilburn
How
was she to restore herself to his favour?
Anthony Trollope… Kept in the Dark
-) In particular: to
cause (something artificial, like a building, etc.) to be back in its original
state when it was built or construed; to repair; to make a
restoration of:
[…] every street and building was to be restored, from their very foundations.
James Elmes… dictionary of the fine arts
[…]
both ships were careened, caulked, rigged, and restored fit for sea.
Robert Kerr… Voyages and Travels
In a little while my dress was restored, and we took our leave.
Arthur's Home Magazine, vol. 15
-) In
particular: to cause (something natural, like a fossil, etc.) to
be back in its original form when it was alive, by joining the pieces that have
been disjoined:
The soundness of the reasoning of Cuvier […] was established by the
subsequent discovery of skeletons, such as he had conjecturally restored from insulated bones.
William Buckland… Geology and mineralogy
-) In
particular: to cause (a text, literary work, etc.) to be back in
its original context when it was written, by replacing the words or letters
which are missing or illegible.
-) In
particular: to cause (somebody who is sick, weak, etc.) to be
back to his healthy state:
I
wish I could make some potent elixir in the same [… manner] as gooseberry wine,
that would restore sick people to health.
Adrien Paul… Willis, the pilot
When
an infant has been restored from a state of asphyxia; it
frequently relapses into a secondary asphyxia.
The Lancet London, vol. I
Like
those flowers that droop during a storm, but recover their brilliancy with the
first rays of the sun; so a few days more sufficed to restore Mary Wolston to better health than she had
ever enjoyed in her life before.
Adrien Paul… Willis, the pilot
[…] as soon as he had quitted the fresh air, he fainted. We accordingly
brought him back to the deck, and restored him to animation by rubbing him with
brandy, and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.
Mary Shelley… Frankenstein
She
filled, too, a goblet of polished crystal with foaming wine ; but I had no need
to drink, for I had restored myself enough with the fruits.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 9
3. To
cause (something which was previously disestablished or discontinued) to be
into existence again.
Synonyms: to
re-establish, renew.
Translation: restaurar, in Spanish.
Clemangis […] is said by Crevier to have restored the study of classical antiquity in France, after an intermission of
two centuries.
Henry Hallam… The literature of Europe
[…]
the school was again started under the auspices of one of the old standard
teachers of the district, the confidence of the community became speedily restored.
Willie Triton… The fisher boy
After
some vociferation, quiet was at length fully restored, and, as very often happens
in similar cases, a profound and remarkable silence ensued.
Edgar Poe
4. To
take or put back into a place.
-) It is rarely found as a transitive verb, in this acceptation.
-) Reflexively: to put itself back into
the original position or place.
In a
catenary curve the suspension-chain was in a condition of what was termed
stable equilibrium: it had a tendency to restore
itself if
disturbed.
James Forrest… Civil engineers
Many conjectures [… as] for the elasticity of the air. Some have
compared the air to watch-springs or hoops, which coiled up by pressure, restore themselves again as soon as the pressure is removed.
George Adams… Lectures…
5. To reinstate
(a person) in a former office.
Other
English words derived from the Latin staurare: restaurant, store (verb, noun), restored, restorer,
storing, storeholder, stored, storehouse, storekeeper, storeman, store-room,
storer, storeship, instauration, instaurator, restorable, restorableness,
restoral, restoration, restorative, restoratively, restorativeness, restoring,
restoringly, restaurant, restauranter, restaurate, restauration, restaurative,
unstored.
