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ace, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reëstablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war. Behold the different climes agree, Rejoicing in thy restoration. Dryden.

A Restorationist.

The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.

One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

gor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32.

ct; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee. Job xxii. 28.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition; as, an irreducible hernia.

The restoration of lost parts of the body.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

urgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.

Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

Restoration: restitution: surrender. Howell.