reinstate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb restore to the previous state or rank
  2. verb bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
    restore; reestablish.
    • restore law and order
    • reestablish peace in the region
    • restore the emperor to the throne

WordNet

Re`in*state" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.
    For the just we have said already thet some of them were reinstated in their pristine happiness and felicity. Glanvill.

Webster 1913