recomfort 
2. To comfort again ; console anew. 
And hym with al hire wit to reconforte, 
As sche best koude, she can hym to disport. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iL 1672. 
Recomfort thyself, wench, in a better choice. 
Middleton, Family of Love, ii. 4. 
recomfortlesst (re-kum'fert-les), . [< 'recom- 
fort, 11. (< F. rccoiifort, succor, consolation), + 
-less.] Without comfort. 
There all that night remained Britomart, 
Restlesse, recomfortlesse, with heart deepe grieved. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. vi. 24. 
recomforturet (re-kum'fer-tur), n. [< recom- 
fort + -ure.~\ Renewal or restoration of com- 
fort. 
They shall breed 
Selves of themselves, to your recomforture [orig. recom- 
ftture]. Shale., Rich. III., iv. 4. 425. 
recommence (re-ko-mens'), v. [< F. recom- 
mencer = Pr. recomensar = It. ricominciare ; 
as re- + commence."] I. intrans. To begin 
again to be; begin again. 
He seemed desirous enough of recommencing courtier. 
Johnson, Swift. 
The transport of reconciliation was soon over ; and the 
old struggle recommenced. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
II. trans. To cause again to begin to be ; be- 
gin again. 
I could be well content, allow'd the use 
Of past experience, . . . 
To recommence life's trial. Cowper, Four Ages. 
recommencement (re-ko-mens'ment), . [< 
OF. (and F.) recommencement = It. ricomincia- 
mento; as recommence + -ment.] A commence- 
ment anew. 
recommend (rek-o-mend'), v. t. [Early mod. 
E. also recommaund ; < ME. rccommenden, reco- 
manden, recomaunden, < OF. recommander, re- 
cumander, F. recommaitdcr = Pr. recommandar 
= Cat. recomanar = Sp. recomendar = Pg. re- 
commendar = It. raccomandare, < ML. recom- 
mendare, recommend, < L. re-, again, + com- 
mendare, commend: see commend.] 1. To 
commend to another's notice ; put in a favor- 
able light before another; commend or give 
favorable representations of ; bring under one's 
notice as likely to be of service. 
Custance, your child, hlr recomandeth of te 
Un-to your grace. 
Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 180. 
And we praye the kynge of Fraunce that he wyll vs 
recommaunde to the myghty kyng of Englande. 
R. Eden, tr. of Amerigo Vespucci (First Books on Amer- 
ica, ed. Arber, p. .\\ \\i >. 
In my most hearty wise I recommend me to you. 
Sir T. More (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 297). 
He recommends a red striped silk to the pale complex- 
ion, white to the brown, and dark to the fair. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 265. 
2. To make acceptable ; attract favor to. 
Conversing with the meanest of the people, and choos- 
ing such for his Apostles, who brought nothing to recom- 
mend them but iunocency and simplicity. 
StiUingfleet, Sermons, I. iii. 
As shades more sweetly recommend the light, 
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 301. 
3. To commit or intrust, as in prayer. 
Alle the bretherin and sistrin . . . ban recomoundid in 
here mynde the stat of holi Chirche, and for pesand vnite 
in the lond. English Oilds (E. E. T. 8.), p. 37. 
Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by 
the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xv. 40. 
4. To advise, as to an action, practice, mea- 
sure, remedy, or the like; advise (that some- 
thing be done). 
If there be a particular inn ... where you are well ac- 
quainted, . . . recommend your master thither. 
Swift, Advice to Servants, To the Groom. 
He recommended that the whole disposition of the camp 
should be changed. Irving, Granada, p. 67. 
I was . . . strongly recommended to sell out by his 
Royal Highness the Commander-in-chief. 
Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confessions. 
5t. To give or commit in kindness. 
Denied me mine own purse, 
Which I had recommended to his use 
Not half an hour before. Shak., T. N., T. 1. 94. 
To recommend itself, to be agreeable ; make itself ac- 
ceptable. 
This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air 
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itsetf 
Unto our gentle senses. Shak., Macbeth, i. 6. 2. 
recommendable (rek-o-men'da-bl), a. [< OF. 
(and F.) recommandable = Sp. recomendable = 
Pg. recommendavel ; as recommend + -able.] 
Capable of being or suitable to be recom- 
mended; worthy or deserving of recommenda- 
tion or praise. Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatiz- 
ing, Pref . 
5006 
recommendableness (rek-o-men'da-bl-nes), n. 
The quality of being recommendable. Dr. H. 
More. 
recommendably (rek-o-men'da-bli), adi\ In a 
recommendable manner; so as to deserve rec- 
ommendation. 
recommendation (rek"o-men-da'shgn), . [< 
ME. recomendacyoii, < OF. (and F.)"recomman- 
tlution = Pr. recomandatio = Sp. recomendacion 
= Pg. recommendag&o = It. raccommandazione, 
< ML. recommendatio(n-), < recommendare, rec- 
ommend: see recommend.] 1. The act of rec- 
ommending or of commending; the act of rep- 
resenting in a favorable manner for the pur- 
pose of procuring the notice, confidence, or 
civilities of another. 
My wife . . . referred her to all the neighbors for a 
character ; but this our peeress declined as unnecessary, 
alleging that her cousin Thornhill's recommendation would 
be sufficient Goldsmith, Vicar, xi. 
2. That which procures a kind or favorable 
reception; any thing, quality, or attribute, 
which produces or tends to produce a favor- 
able acceptance, reception, or adoption. 
PopUcola's doors were opened on the outside, to save 
the people even the common civility of asking entrance ; 
where misfortune was a powerful recommendation. 
Dryden. 
3f. Favor; repute. 
Whome I fonnde a lorde of hyghe rccomendacyon, no- 
ble, lyberall, and curtesse. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. xxvil. 
It [the barylng of the dead] hath always been had in an 
extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancients. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, ii. 
4. A letter of recommendation. [Colloq.] 
Letter of recommendation, a letter given by one per- 
son to another, and addressed to a third or " to whom it 
may concern," in which the bearer is represented as 
worthy of consideration and confidence. 
recommendativet (rek-o-men'da-tiv), n. [= 
OF. recommandatif = It. raccomandativo ; as 
recommend + -a tire.] That which recommends ; 
a recommendation. Imp. Diet. 
recommendatory (rek-o-men'da-to-ri), a. [= 
Sp. recomendatorio = It. raccomandatorio ; < 
recommend + -at-ory. Cf. commendatory.] Serv- 
ing to recommend; recommending. 
If you . . . send us withal a Copy of your Recommen- 
datory Letters, we shall then take care that you may with 
all speed repair to us upon the Public Faith. 
MUton, Letters of State (Works, VIII. 271). 
recommender (rek-p-men'der), n. [< OF. (and 
F.) recommandeur =: Pg. recommendador = It. 
raccomandatore ; from the verb.] One who or 
that which recommends. 
This letter Is in your behalf, fair maid ; 
There 's no denying such a recommcnder. 
Digby, Elvira, i 1. 
recommit (re-ko-mif), v. t. [= It. ricommet- 
tere; as re- + commit. Cf. ML. recommittere, 
commend.] 1. To commit again: as, to recom- 
mit persons to prison. 
When they had bailed the twelve bishops who were in 
the Tower, the House of Commons expostulated with them, 
and caused them to be recommitted. Clarendon. 
2. To refer again as to a committee. 
I shall propose to yon to suppress the Board of Trade 
and Plantations, and to recommit all its business to the 
council. Burke, Economical Reform. 
If a report is recommitted before it has been agreed to 
by the assembly, what has heretofore passed in the com- 
mittee is of no validity. 
Gushing, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 291. 
recommitment (re-ko-mit'ment),n. [< recom- 
mit + -ment.] 1. A second or renewed com- 
mitment. 2. A renewed reference to a com- 
mittee. 
recommittal (re-ko-mit'al), n. [< recommit + 
-al.] Same as recommitment. 
recompact (re-kom-pakf), . * [< re- + com- 
pact 1 , v.] To compact or join anew. 
Repair 
And recompact my scatter'd body. 
Donne, A Valediction of my Name, 
recompencet, v. and n. An old spelling of rec- 
ompense. 
recompensation (re-kom-pen-sa'shon), n. [< 
ME. recompensacioti, recompensacioun, < OF. re- 
compensation = Sp. recompensacion = Pg. re- 
compensayao = It. ricompensazione, < ML. re- 
compensatio(n-), a rewarding, < recompensare, 
reward: see recompense.] If. A recompense. 
They ne owhte nat ryht for the recompensacyon for to 
geten hem bounte and prowesse. 
Chaucer, Boe thins, iv. prose 4. 
And that done, he shuld geue vnto the duke, in recom- 
pensacion of his costys, so many wedgys of golde as shulde 
charge or lade viii. charettis. 
Fabyan, Chron., II., an. 1391. 
2. In Scots law, a case in which the plaintiff 
pursues for a debt, and the defendant pleads 
recompletion 
compensation, to which the pursuer replies by 
pleading compensation also. 
recompense (rek'om-pens), r. ; pret. and pp. 
recompenxed, ppr. recom in'imiuij. [Formerly also 
recompence; < ME. recompensen, < OF. recomjn n- 
ser, F. reeompenscr = Pr. Sp. Pg. recomjiensar 
= It. ricompenxare, < ML. recompensare, reward, 
remunerate, < L. re-, again, + compensare, com- 
pensate: see compensate.] I. trans. 1. To make 
a return to; give or render an equivalent to, as 
for services or loss ; compensate: with a person 
as object. 
For they cannot recompence the, butt thou shalt be re- 
compensed at the resurreccion of the iuste men. 
Tyndale, Luke xiv. 14. 
Vet fortune cannot recompense me better 
Than to die well and not my master's debtor. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 3. 75. 
2. To return an equivalent for; pay for; re- 
ward; requite. 
I will recompense their iniquity. Jer. xvi. 18. 
He means to recompense the pains you take 
By cutting off your heads. Shak., K. John, v. 4. 15. 
He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy 
them in their own malice. 
Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, xciv. 23. 
3. To pay or give as an equivalent; payback. 
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Rom. xii. 17. 
4. To make amends for by some equivalent; 
make compensation for ; pay some forfeit for. 
If the man have no kinsman to recmnpeiae the trespass 
unto. Num. v. 8. 
So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 161. 
The sun, whose presence they are long depriued of in 
the winter (which is recompensed in their nightlesse Sum- 
mer), is worshipped amongst them. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 434. 
Where thou mightst hope to change 
Torment with ease, and soonest recompense 
Dole with delight. Milton, P. L., iv. 893. 
He is a very licentious translator, and does not recom- 
pense his neglect of the author by beauties of his own. 
Johnson, Stepney. 
5. To serve as an equivalent or recompense for. 
The tenderness of an uncle recompensed the neglect of 
a father. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Remunerate, Reimburse, etc. (see indem- 
ntfu\ repay. 
H.t intrans. To make amends or return. 
Chaucer. 
recompense (rek'om-pens), n. [Formerly also 
recompence; < OF. recompense, F. recompense = 
Sp. Pg. recomj>ensa = It. ricompensa, I., ricom- 
penso, m., < ML. recompensa, recompense ; from 
the verb.] An equivalent returned for anything 
given, done, or suffered; compensation; re- 
ward; amends; requital. 
To me belongeth vengeance and recompence. 
Deut. xxxii. 35. 
Is this a child's love? or a recompense 
Fit for a father's care? 
Beau, and Ft., Captain, i. 3. 
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; 
Heaven did a recompense as largely send. 
Gray, Elegy. 
recompensementt (rek'om-pens-ment), n. [< 
OF. recompensement = It. r icompensamento ; as 
recompense + -ment.] Recompense; requital. 
Edfryde had great summes of money in recompencement 
of his brother's deth. Fabyan, Chron., I. cxxxv. 
recompenser (rek'om-pen-ser), n. [< OF. re- 
compenseur, F. recompenses = Pg. recompensa- 
dor, < ML. recompensator, < recompensare, rec- 
ompense: see recompense.] One who or that 
which recompenses. 
recompensive (rek'om-pen-siv), a. [< recom- 
pense + -ire.] Having the character of a rec- 
ompense ; compensative. 
Reduce those seeming inequalities and respective distri- 
butions in this world to an equality and recompensive jus- 
tice in the next. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 5 47. 
recompile (re-kom-pll'), v. t. [< re- + compile.] 
To compile anew. Bacon. 
recompilement (re-kpm-pil'ment), n. [< re- 
compile + -ment.] A new compilation or digest. 
Although I had a purpose to make a particular digest or 
recompilement of the laws, I laid it aside. 
Bacon, A Compiling an Amendment of the Laws. 
recomplete (re-kom-plef), v. t. [< re- + com- 
plete.] To complete anew; make complete 
again, as after an injury. 
The ability of an organism to recomplete itself when one 
of its parts has been cut off is of the same order as the 
ability of an injured crystal to recomplete itself. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 64. 
recompletion (re-kom-ple'shon), ii, [< re- + 
completion.] Completion again, as after an in- 
jury which has caused incompleteness. 
