recompose

verb

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from recompōnō

Definitions

  1. 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
  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recompose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA