different between reclaim vs reclaimless

English

Etymology

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin recl?m?, recl?m?re.

Pronunciation

verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???kle?m/, /?i??kle?m/

noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?kle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

reclaim (third-person singular simple present reclaims, present participle reclaiming, simple past and past participle reclaimed)

2. (transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.
3. (transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
4. (transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.
5. (transitive, dated) To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
   • 1609, Edward Hoby, A Letter to Mr. T[heophilus] H[iggons], late Minister: now Fugitive ... in answere of his first Motive

     Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.

   • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Goodness of God a Motive to Repentance

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

6. (transitive, archaic) To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

   • an eagle well reclaimed

7. (transitive, archaic) To 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.

8. (transitive, archaic) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
   • 1719, Daniel Waterland, A Vindication of Christ's Divinit

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

   • 1882, Alexander Bain, Biography of James Mill

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

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     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

9. (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

10. (intransitive, law, Scotland) To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

reclaim (plural reclaims)

1. (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
2. (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
3. An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

Anagrams

• Maricle, Miracle, Ramciel, car mile, claimer, miracle

Old French

Noun

reclaim m (oblique plural reclains, nominative singular reclains, nominative plural reclaim)

1. reputation

Descendants

• English: reclaim

References

• reclaim on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

reclaim +? -less

Adjective

reclaimless (comparative more reclaimless, superlative most reclaimless)

1. That can not be reclaimed; irremediable.

   a reclaimless liar