regenerated
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From regenerate + -ed.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]regenerated
- simple past and past participle of regenerate
Adjective
[edit]regenerated (comparative more regenerated, superlative most regenerated)
- Spiritually made again; reborn.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 12:
- She declared her helpmate to be a limb of Antichrist, and one with whom no regenerated person could associate.
- Physically formed or created again; restored, remade, revived.
- (biology, medicine) Formed by regeneration.
- 1928, Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point[1], London: Chatto & Windus:
- The little bud of regenerated tissue which would normally have grown into a new tail had been removed.
- (chemistry, textiles) Reprecipitated after chemical treatment, especially in the form of fibres; pertaining to fibres prepared in this way.