re-member
Formsre-members, re-membering, re-membered
- 1To reassemble or reconstitute something, especially a body, that has been dismembered or taken apart.
Like reassembling a shattered vase shard by shard until it is whole again.
Restorers worked for months to re-member the temple frieze from thousands of scattered fragments.
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.
2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five VolumesSimilarreassemble, reconstitute, reconstruct
Oppositedismember
Note
Re- plus member makes a pun that undoes dismember. The hyphen keeps it apart from remember, and writers lean on the echo: Roy Melvyn's The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin (2012) sets dismember, re-member and remembered side by side. The myth it keeps returning to is Isis gathering the scattered Osiris. In writing on performance it stretches to restaging an image, as when a scene re-members Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson.
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Origin
Formed from the prefix re- combined with member.