1.the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
2.getting something back again;
upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing
3.the state of being restored to its former good condition;
the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house
4.some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed;
the restoration looked exactly like the original
5.a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.