"re-member" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973, Kenneth John Criqui, Dreams of the Swift Queen Turning Back on Herself Through the Gates, page 35:",
          "text": "This metaphysical flesh is the wooden phallus with which Isis re-members Osiris, it is ...",
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          "ref": "1988, Christine Downing, Psyche's Sisters: Reimagining the Meaning of Sisterhood, HarperCollins:",
          "text": "Eventually Isis manages to recover all but one of the pieces (the phallus, of course, being the missing part, but she magically fashions a replacement for it) and to re-member Osiris, who then becomes god of the afterworld.",
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          "ref": "2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020, Martin O’Brien, Gianna Bouchard, “Zombie sickness: contagious ideas in performance”, in Alan Bleakley, editor, Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities, Routledge, →ISBN, part IV (Medicine as performance and public engagement):",
          "text": "This scene re-members the Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. The image honours the once famous Dutch physician, his contribution to medical science and a number of his contemporary surgeon colleagues who are also captured in the moment. It suggests that medicine has long depended on re-animating corpses for its own epistemological and legitimising ends.",
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        "To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered."
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        "(uncommon) To reconstitute or reassemble that which has been dismembered."
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