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The act or process of recondensing.

To condense again.

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

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

To conduct back or again. "A guide to reconduct thy steps." Dryden.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to. [POetic] He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love. Spenser.

r of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other. And he slept and dreamed the second time. Gen. xli. 5.

Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second- sight. Trumbull.

Having the power of second-sight. Addison.

In a secondary manner or degree.

The state of being secondary. Full of a girl's sweet sense of secondariness to the object of her love. Mrs. Oliphant.

Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. Wheresoever there is normal right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it. L'Estrange. Two are the radical differences; the secondary differences are as four. Bacon.…

One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.

Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke.

In the second place.

The second part in a concerted piece.

Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.