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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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RECOMPENSIVE a.

Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense. Sir T. Browne.

RECOMPILATION n.

A new compilation.

To compile anew.

RECOMPILEMENT n.

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.

RECOMPOSE v. 2 definitions

To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly. The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who recomposes.

RECOMPOSITION n.

The act of recomposing.

RECONCENTRADO n.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

RECONCENTRATE v.

To concentrate again; to concentrate thoroughly.

RECONCENTRATION n.

The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

RECONCILABLE a.

Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable. Arbuthnot. -- Rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.

RECONCILE v. 5 definitions

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. The church [if defiled] is interdicted till it be reconciled [i.e., restored to sanct…

RECONCILEMENT n.

Reconciliation. Milton.

One who reconciles.

RECONCILIATION n. 2 definitions

The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship. Reconciliation and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.

RECONCILIATORY a.

Serving or tending to reconcile. Bp. Hall.

RECONDENSATION n.

The act or process of recondensing.

To condense again.

RECONDITE a. 2 definitions

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

A repository; a storehouse. [Obs.] Ash.