rare. [L., a. Gr. ἀποκατάστασις re-establishment, f. ἀπο-καθιστάναι to set up again.]
1. Restoration, re-establishment, renovation.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 328. A Tradition … concerning the Apocatastasis of the world … partly by Inundation and partly by Conflagration.
2. Path. Return to a previous condition.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., We read of Apocatastasis of urine … of tumours; and other diseases.
1880. Syd. Soc. Lex., Apocatastasis, The subsidence of a tumour, or the re-establishment of an exudation or secretion.
3. Astr. Return to the same apparent position, completion of period of revolution. (So in Gr.)
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, I. 33, note. The accurate apocatastasis (i. e. regression to the same sign) of the moon, and in a similar manner of the sun.
