recond

English

Etymology

From Latin recondō (“to put back, to reestablish; to put away, to hide”), from re- (“again”) + condō (“to build, to form; to store; to conceal”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkənd/, /ɹɪˈkɒnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkənd/, /ɹəˈkɑnd/, /ɹiˈkɑnd/

Verb

recond (third-person singular simple present reconds, present participle reconding, simple past and past participle reconded)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put away; to set apart.
   • 1608, English Martyrology, John Wilson, section 89:

     St Ethelwold, King of the same Prouince and Martyr: who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects, and his body brought to the Church of Hexam... the same was with great solemnity & veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so pretious a treasure.

   • 1693, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 17, 657:

     A Ferment […] somewhere reconded out of the Road of the circulating Blood, and there gradually maturated.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "recond, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009.

Anagrams

• Codner, Conder, conder, corned