reknot

reknot

(riːˈnɒt)
vb (tr)
to knot again
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il cherche dans le passe des motifs pour se confier a l'avenir, et veut donner a l'historien la haute mission du prophete." Identifying analogies between past and present, Guizot argued in 1820, would permit historians to "reknot time's chain": "On s'efforce aujourd'hui, et avec grande raison, de rattacher ce que nous sommes a ce que nous avons ete jadis; on sent la necessite de lier les sentimens aux habitudes, les institutions aux souvenirs, de renouer enfin la chaine des temps qui ne se laisse jamais rompre tout-a-fait, quelque violens que soient les coups qu'on lui porte" (Guizot 6).
With time for a late-afternoon lunch before his next appointment, Kulongoski reknots his tie and has his entourage pull off at a downtown eatery, Mother's Bistro, where chef and owner Lisa Schroeder gives him a big hug and welcomes him in.
In this way, Jago, after having been only briefly overwhelmed by an event that was not within his control (the letter recalling Otello to Venice), quickly reknots, with an unparalleled rapidity and energy, all the threads of the tragedy" (The Verdi-Boito Correspondence 55; emphasis mine).