recompose
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See also: recomposé
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[edit]recompose (third-person singular simple present recomposes, present participle recomposing, simple past and past participle recomposed)
- (transitive) To compose or construct again.
- to dissolve and recompose a substance
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107:
- 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.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- 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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[edit]recompose
- inflection of recomposer: