RECLAIM (2)

Re‐claim″ (rē̍‐klām″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reclaimed (–klāmd″); p. pr. & vb. n. Reclaiming.] [[F. réclamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.]] 1. 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer.
2. 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. Dryden. 3. 3. 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. “An eagle well reclaimed.” Dryden.
4. 4. 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.
5. 5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. Rogers. 6. 6. To correct; to reform; — said of things.
Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. Sir E. Hoby. 7. 7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. Fuller.
Syn. — To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct.