Reclaim
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

2. (v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

3. (v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

4. (v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.

5. (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

6. (v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

7. (v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things.

8. (v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay.

9. (v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

10. (v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

11. (v. i.) To draw back; to give way.

12. (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

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Going Home --A Christmas Sermon
... sunder, and broken the fetters in pieces. Attempts had been made to reclaim
him; but no man could tame him. He was worse than the wild ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/going homea christmas sermon.htm

Letter Xlv (Circa AD 1120) to a Youth Named Fulk, who Afterwards ...
... Who forced you to yield to his flatteries? He had not yet given up what was
his own. What wonder that he should reclaim you, who wast his! ...
/.../some letters of saint bernard abbot of clairvaux/letter xlv circa a d 1120.htm

Do are Then Make Void the Law through Faith? God Forbid; Yea, we ...
... The motives of the law did not restrain those beings from committing sin, and it
is absurd to suppose the same motives can "reclaim" them from sin, when they ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/do are then make void.htm

Of Evil-Speaking in General.
... with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin,
or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/of evil-speaking in general.htm

Hatred Without Cause
... What else did he come for? He came on earth to reclaim the wanderer; and
is there anything in that that should make men hate Christ? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/hatred without cause.htm

Love, the Motive Power for Service.
... The end of preaching is to reclaim the hearts of men to God, and nothing but love
can find out the mysterious avenues which lead to the heart. ...
/.../moody/to the work to the work/chapter ii love the motive.htm

Connection of Gluttony and Lust. Grounds of Psychical Objections ...
... dispute) is a human presumption; or else pronounced pseudo-prophecy, if it is a
spiritual declaration; provided that, either way, we who reclaim hear (sentence ...
/.../chapter i connection of gluttony and.htm

Preface.
... The author is more than convinced that any attempt to claim and reclaim must, to
be successful on a large scale, commence in a renaissance of Gospel preaching. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/jackson/the message and the man/preface.htm

Sudden Conversions.
... Does God work miracles to reclaim His open malevolent adversaries, and not rather
to encourage and lead forward those who timidly seek Him? ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xv sudden conversions.htm

Of the Prohibition of Adultery in the Decalogue.
... Will not on one side Idolatry, on the other Murder, detain her, and (if they have
any voice) reclaim: "This is our wedge, this our compacting power? ...
/.../tertullian/on modesty/chapter v of the prohibition of.htm

Thesaurus
Reclaim (1 Occurrence)
... to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from
being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land ...
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Loan (9 Occurrences)
... taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must
remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). ...
/l/loan.htm - 16k

Tame (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (v.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar;
to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast. ...
/t/tame.htm - 8k

Reckons (3 Occurrences)

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Reclaimed (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Reclaim. Multi-Version Concordance
Reclaimed (1 Occurrence). Esther 8:2 The king took off ...
/r/reclaimed.htm - 6k

Magus
... On this account he himself came, that he might first of all reclaim her and free
her from her chains, and then give salvation to men through the knowledge of ...
/m/magus.htm - 23k

Hosea (6 Occurrences)
... Whether it was that she was known to be a worthless woman before the marriage and
that the prophet hoped to reclaim her, or that she proved faithless after the ...
/h/hosea.htm - 43k

Simon (75 Occurrences)
... On this account he himself came, that he might first of all reclaim her and free
her from her chains, and then give salvation to men through the knowledge of ...
/s/simon.htm - 91k

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Reclaim (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
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