reclaim

verb

1. 1

   To return land to a suitable condition for use.

2. 2

   To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

3. 3

   To claim something back; to repossess.

4. 4

   datedTo return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

   His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue, And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.

   Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

   They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.

   It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.

5. 5

   archaicTo tame or domesticate a wild animal.

   an eagle well reclaimed

6. 6

   archaicTo call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

   They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.

7. 7

   archaicTo cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

   True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him

   Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not bear it.

   At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.

8. 8

   obsoleteTo draw back; to give way.

   Yet would he not perswaded be for ought, Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.

9. 9

   To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

10. 10

    To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.

    Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteThe calling back of a hawk.

2. 2

   obsoleteThe bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

   The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame […].

3. 3

   An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

4. 4

   Material recovered from something that has already been used.

   Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?

5. 5

   Variant of baggage reclaimClipping of baggage reclaim.

Forms

plural

reclaims

past tense

reclaimed

past participle

reclaimed

present participle

reclaiming

third person singular

reclaims