re-member

re- +‎ member

re-member (third-person singular simple present re-members, present participle re-membering, simple past and past participle re-membered)

1. (uncommon) To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered.
   • 1973, Kenneth John Criqui, Dreams of the Swift Queen Turning Back on Herself Through the Gates, page 35:

     This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is  ...

   • 1988, Christine Downing, Psyche's Sisters: Reimagining the Meaning of Sisterhood, Harpercollins

     Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.

   • 1998, David Germano, “Re-Membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic of China”, in Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet, edited by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew Kapstein, pages 53–94
   • 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN):

     To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.

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