(transitive) To restore (something) to its former condition.
(transitive) To provide recompense for (something).
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:. . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .
1966, Anaïs Nin, Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005, p. 28:What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
1980, Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, ISBN 9780801491856, p. 266:What it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
