re-creativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

re-creative

1. That creates again or in a new way.
   • 1783, W[illiam] Hutton, “Gentlemen’s Seats”, in An History of Birmingham. […], 2nd edition, Birmingham, Warwickshire: […] Pearson and Rollason; [a]nd sold by R. Baldwin, […] B. White, […], →OCLC, pages 274–275:

     The hiſtorian only collects the matter of the day, and hands it to poſterity; but the antiquarian brings his treaſures from remote ages, and preſents them to this: he examines forgotten repoſitories, calls things back into exiſtence, which are paſt; counteracts the efforts of time, and of death; poſſeſſes ſomething like a re-creative power; collects the duſt of departed matter, moulds it into its preſtine ſtate, exhibits the figure to view, and ſtamps it with a kind of immortality.

   • 1846, Horace Smith, “Prefatory Stanzas”, in The Poetical Works of Horace Smith, […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 4:

     Mutely each re-creative lay outpour’d / Its own revealings; / Youth, manhood, age, were momently restored, / With all their feelings.

   • 1989, Richard Osborne, “[Herbert] [v]on Karajan: Profile of a Musician”, in Conversations with Von Karajan (A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book), 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, pages 16–17:

     One should always be careful, of course, not to confuse the creative artist with the re-creative one (as [Giuseppe] Verdi once remarked, that is the way to the abyss).

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