n. The doctrine that one day, all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation.
n. Restitution, restoration or reestablishment.
n. Return to a previous condition.
n. Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Reëstablishment; full restoration; final restitution. Used specifically to denote—
Word Usage
"Now, theoretically, it ought to be possible to make sort of a real chili cassoulet slow roasted and annealed in the oven until the beef chunks, red kidney beans, anchos, cumin, salt onion and garlic seem ready for the apocatastasis of posterity."