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Definition of Rechristen
1. christen [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: christen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rechristen
Literary usage of Rechristen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"... the proprietor, thinking that his new rose with any other name would bring in
more money, deemed it good policy to rechristen it Rose de I'Empereur, ..."
2. Extension of Morrill Acts to District of Columbia by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (1910)
"To have remained sectarian in any sense, after such a rechristen- ing—after taking
a name belonging ito all good Americans, of every creed—would have been a ..."
3. The Progress of Priscilla by Lucas Cleeve (1905)
"... clear and cutting on the night air, yet with a delicious tone of mischief in
it: " Do you know, if I were you, I would rechristen the Mirabel and call ..."
4. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"rechristen it ; call it self-love, which is its equivalent, and you lend it a
certain importance, if not distinction. Self-love has a very wide meaning and ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"And if, for their better contentment, they rechristen the Missouri the Yellow
River, it will be no serious misnomer. In point of fertility our Western ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"The name is a good one, but it is hardly worth while to rechristen a disease
which is well known by other equally appropriate terms. ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... needs while you await t 'Twas the fashion of the Revolutionary zealots thus
to rechristen themselves with names borrowed from the Roman commonwealth. ..."
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