reconceive

re- +‎ conceive

reconceive (third-person singular simple present reconceives, present participle reconceiving, simple past and past participle reconceived)

1. To conceive something in a new way
   • 2001, Don DeLillo, The Body Artist, page 77:

     It is a kind of time that is simply and overwhelmingly there, laid out, unoccurring, and he lacks the inborn ability to reconceive this condition.

   • 2009 January 16, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Tradition and Change Battle on the Mall”, in New York Times‎:

     Once a bustling thoroughfare, the section of Pennsylvania Avenue that borders the White House has been reconceived as a pedestrian strip paved in granite and protected by guard stations to keep people at a safe distance from the president.

• reconception