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English Dictionary: reinstate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reinstate
v
  1. restore to the previous state or rank
  2. bring back into original existence, use, function, or position; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region"; "restore the emperor to the throne"
    Synonym(s): restore, reinstate, reestablish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reinstate \Re`in*state"\ (-st?t"), v. t.
      To place again in possession, or in a former state; to
      restore to a state from which one had been removed; to
      instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of
      the kingdom.
  
               For the just we have said already thet some of them
               were reinstated in their pristine happiness and
               felicity.                                                --Glanvill.
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