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To combine again.

To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. Bacon. Gan her recomfort from so sad affright. Spenser.

Without comfort. [Obs.]

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

To begin anew to be; to act again as. [Archaic.] He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier. Johnson.

A commencement made anew.

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, who…

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable. Glanvill. -- Rec`om*mend"a*ble*ness, n. -- Rec`om*mend"a*bly, adv.

The act of recommending.

That which recommends; a recommendation. [Obs.]

Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.

One who recommends.

To commission again; to give a new commission to. Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall.

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

To compact or join anew. "Recompact my scattered body." Donne.

Recompense. [Obs.]

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak.

Recompense; requital. [Obs.] Fabyan.

One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.