Lexic.us

Definition of Recast

1. Verb. Cast again, in a different role. "He was recast as Iago"

2. Verb. Cast again. "The bell cracked and had to be recast"

3. Verb. Cast or model anew. "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state"

Definition of Recast

1. v. t. To throw again.

Definition of Recast

1. Verb. To cast or throw again. ¹

2. Verb. To mould again. ¹

3. Verb. To reproduce in a new form. ¹

4. Noun. The act or process of recasting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recast

1. cast [v -CAST, -CASTING, -CASTS] - See also: cast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recast

recarnified recarnify recarpet recarpeted recarpeting recarpets recarriage recarried recarries recarry

recarrying recarve recarved recarves recarving recast (current term) recasting recasts recatalog recataloged

recataloging recatalogs recatch recatches recatching recategorise recategorised recategorises recategorising recategorization

Literary usage of Recast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"So imperfect, however, was this tentative measure that after forty-two amendments in subsequent enactments it was deemed necessary to recast and condense ..."

2. The Jews and the English Law by Henry Straus Quixano Henriques (1908)
"... and the oaths were "upre- recast so as to read as follows: — recast at " I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... 1255, ordered the Dominican cardinal, Hugh of Saint Cher, to recast the entire legislation of the Preachers into a rule which should be called the Rule ..."

4. Federal Equity Practice: A Treatise on the Pleadings Used and Practice by Thomas Atkins Street (1909)
"Order to recast Defective Answer. In a case where the answer contains objectionable and irrelevant matter that cannot well be stricken out on exceptions ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The work lacked systematic arrangement, and included much matter of minor value. It was afterwards entirely recast and critically sifted by Basnage, ..."

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