recompose

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Definition of recompose

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To compose or construct again.

“to dissolve and recompose a substance”
“So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time”

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verb

(transitive)To compose or construct again.

“to dissolve and recompose a substance”
“So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time”
(transitive)To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.

“Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.”

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From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.

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