reclaim

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To 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.

2. 2
   verb

   To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

   an eagle well reclaimed

3. 3
   verb

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To 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

5. 5
   verb

   To draw back; to give way.

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

6. 6
   verb

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   The 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 […].

8. 8
   noun

   Material recovered from something that has already been used.

   Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?

Etymology

From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.