refind
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ɹiːˈfaɪnd/
Verb

refind (refinds, present participle refinding; past and past participle refound)

  1. To find something again.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:
      , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.300:
      Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad.
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