reingratiate

English

Etymology

re- +‎ ingratiate

Verb

reingratiate (third-person singular simple present reingratiates, present participle reingratiating, simple past and past participle reingratiated)

1. (transitive) To ingratiate again or anew.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:

     The Queen and Assaphcawn having notice of his intent, but fearing his force, and that (if he were admitted any private discourse with Jangheer ) probably he would reingratiate himself

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reingratiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)