recompletion 
In this way, by successive destruction nnd re-completion. 
J. D. Dana, Text-book of Ueology (3d ed.), p. 33. 
recompose (re-kom-poz'), v. t. [< OF. (and P.) 
riTiimjHi.ii-r: as IT- 4- cimi/ioaf. Cf. Sp. recoin- 
poner = Pg. recompttr = It. ricoiaporre, recom- 
pose.] 1. To quiet anew; compose or trun- 
quilize that which is ruffled or disturbed: as, 
to recompose the mind. 
By music he was recomposed and tamed. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, iv. 3. 
2. To compose anew ; form or adjust again. 
We were able to produce a lovely purple, which we can 
destroy or recompose at pleasure. Boyle, Works, I. 788. 
recomposer (re-kom-po'zer), . One who or 
that which recomposes. 
No animal figure can off er to move or wagge amisse but 
it meets with a proper corrector and re-composer of its 
motions. Dr. H. Wore, Moral Cabbala, i. 
recomposition (re-kom-po-zish'on), n. [< F. 
recomposition = Sp. recomposicion = Pg. recom- 
posicao ; as re- + composition.'] The act of re- 
composing ; composition renewed. 
I have taken great pains with the recomposition of this 
scene. Lamb, To Coleridge. (Latham.) 
recomptt, ' t. An obsolete form of recount 1 . 
reconcilable (rek'on-si-la-bl), a. [Also recon- 
cileable; < reconcile + -able. Cf. F. reconciliable 
= Sp. reconciliable = Pg. reconciliavel = It. ri- 
conciliabile, <L. as if "reconciliabilis, < reconcili- 
are, reconcile : see reconcile.] Capable of be- 
ing reconciled. Specifically- (a) Capable of being 
brought again to friendly feelings ; capable of renewed 
friendship. (b) Capable of being made to agree or be con- 
sistent; able to be harmonized or made congruous. 
Acts not reconcileable to the rules of discretion, decency, 
and right reason. Bp, Atterbury, Sermons, I. ii. 
The different accounts of the Numbers of Ships ... are 
reconcileable by supposing that some spoke of the men of 
war only and others added the Transports. 
Arbuthnot, Ancient Coins, p. 260. 
So reconcilable are extremes, when the earliest extreme 
is laid in the unnatural. De Quincey, Plato. 
= Syn. (a) Appeasable, placable. (b) Consistent (with). 
reconcilableness (rek'on-sl-la-bl-nes), . The 
quality of being reconcilable, (a) Possibility of 
being restored to friendship and harmony. (6) Consisten- 
cy ; harmony. Also spelled reconcileableness. 
Discerning how the several parts of Scripture are fitted 
to several times, persons, and occurrences, we shall dis- 
cover not only a reconcilableness, but a friendship and per- 
fect harmony, betwixt texts that here seem most at vari- 
ance. Boyle. 
reconcilably (rek'on-sl-la-bli), adv. In a recon- 
cilable manner. Also reconcileably. Imp. Diet. 
reconcile (rek'on-sil), v. ; pret. and pp. recon- 
ciled, ppr. reconciling. [< ME. reconcilen, recon- 
sylen, recounselen, < OF. reconcilier, rcconseiller, 
F. reconcilier = Pr. Sp. Pg. reconciliar = It. 
rlconciliare, < L. reconciliare, bring together 
again, reunite, reconcile, < re-, again, + concili- 
are, bring together, conciliate : see conciliate."] 
1. trans. 1. To conciliate anew; restore to 
uuipn and friendship after estrangement or 
variance ; bring again to friendly or favorable 
feelings. 
First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and 
offer thy gift. Mat. v. 24. 
We pray you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 
2 Cor. v. 20. 
To be friends for her sake, to be reconciled. 
Tennyson, Maud, xix. 
2. To adjust; pacify; settle: as, to reconcile 
differences or quarrels. 
You never shall, so help you truth and God ! 
Embrace each other's love in banishment ; . . . 
Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile 
This louring tempest of your home-bred hate. 
Sfiak., Rich. II., i. 3. 186. 
3. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet 
submission: with to. 
The treasurer's talent in removing prejudice, and recon- 
ciling himself to wavering affections. Clarendon. 
I found his voice distinct till I came near Front street. 
. . . This reconciled me to the newspaper accounts of his 
having preached to twenty-nve thousand people in the 
fields. B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 169. 
Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good 
measure when once it is taken, though they condemned 
it in advance. Emerson, Amer. Civilization. 
4. To make consistent or congruous ; bring to 
agreement or suitableness: often followed by 
Kith or to. 
Such welcome and unwelcome things at once 
'Tis hard to reconcile. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 139. 
If it be possible to reconcile contradictions, he will praise 
him by displeasing him, and serve him by disserving him. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxv. 
5. To rid of apparent discrepancies ; harmo- 
nize : as, to reconcile the accounts of a fact given 
by two historians : often with with or to. 
Howeuer, it breeds much difficulty to reconcile the an- 
cient Historic of the Babylonian and Assyrian great and 
5007 
long continued Empire with the kingdomes and Kings in 
that Chapter by Moses mentioned. 
I'urchax, Pilgrimage, p. 71. 
6. Ecdcit., to restore to sacred uses after dese- 
cration, or to unity with the church, by a pre- 
scribed ceremonial : as, to reconcile a church or 
a cemetery which has been profaned, as by mur- 
der ; to reconcile a penitent (that is, to restore to 
communion one who has lapsed, as into heresy 
or schism). 
Oure righte Heritage before seyd [Palestine] scholde be 
recansyled and put in the Hondes of the righte Heires of 
Jesu Crist. MandevUle, Travels, p. 4. 
The chirche is entredited til it be reconciled by the 
bysshop. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Innocent III. ordered that the remains of the excom- 
municated person . . . should ... be exhumed ; if not, 
that the cemetery should be reconciled by the aspersion of 
holy water solemnly blessed. Horn. Cath. Diet., p. 134. 
7t. To recover; regain. 
Othir kynges of the kith, that comyn fro Troy, 
That were put fro there prouyns, Kepairet agayne, 
Recounseled to there cuntre, comyns & other. 
And were welcom, I-wis, to wyuis & all. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 12931. 
8. In ship-building, to join (a piece of work) 
fair with another. The term refers particularly 
to the reversion of curves. = Syn. 1. Reconcile, Con- 
ciliate, pacify, appease. Reconcile may apply to one or 
both parties to a quarrel ; conciliate to only one. With 
either word, if only one side is meant, the person or per- 
sons seem to be rather in a position of superiority. 2. To 
compose, heal. 
II. t intrans. To become reconciled. 
Your thoughts, though much startled at first, reconcile 
to it. Abp. Sancro/t, Sermons, p. 104. (Latham.) 
reconcilement (rek'on-sll-ment), n. [< OF. re- 
conciliement, F. reconciliement = Pr. reconcilia- 
mcnt=It. riconciliamento; as reconcile + -ment.~\ 
1 . The act of reconciling, in any sense ; recon- 
ciliation ; renewal of interrupted friendship. 
Reconcilement is better managed by an amnesty, and 
passing over that which is past, than by apologies and ex- 
cusations. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 316. 
2. Adjustment. 
By reconcilement exquisite and rare, 
The form, port, motions, of this Cottage-girl 
Were such as might have quickened and inspired 
A Titian's hand. Wordsviorth, Excursion, vi. 
reconciler (rek'on-si-ler), n. One who recon- 
ciles ; especially, one who brings parties at va- 
riance into renewed friendship. 
reconciliation (rek-on-sil-i-a'shon), n. [< OF. 
reconciliation, F. reconciliation = Pr. reconcili- 
atio = Sp. reconciliacion = Pg. reconciliacSo = 
It. riconciliazione, < L. reconciliatio(n-), a resto- 
ration, renewal, reconciliation, < reconciliare, 
reconcile: see reconcile."] 1 . The act of recon- 
ciling parties at variance; renewal of friend- 
ship after disagreement or enmity. 
A man that languishes in your displeasure, 
. . . your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord, 
If I have any grace or power to move you, 
His present reconciliation take. 
Shale., Othello, iii. 3.47. 
I have found out a Pique she has taken at him, and 
have fram'd a letter that makes her sue for Reconciliation 
first. Congreve, Old Batchelor, ill. 11. 
2. The act of harmonizing or making consis- 
tent ; an agreement of things seemingly oppo- 
site, different, or inconsistent. 
These distinctions of the fear of God give us a clear and 
easy reconciliation of those seeming inconsistencies of 
Scripture with respect to this affection. D. Rogers. 
3. Eccles.: (a) Removal of the separation made 
between God and man by sin ; expiation ; pro- 
pitiation; atonement. 2 Chron. xxix. 24. (b) 
Restoration to sacred uses after desecration, or 
to communion with the church. See reconcile, 6. 
The local interdict is quite peculiar to the Church of 
Rome. It is removed by what is termed reconciliation. 
Encyc. Brit., XIII. 188. 
= Syn. 1. Atonement, Expiation, etc. (see propitiation) ; 
reconcilement, appeasement, pacification, reunion. 
reconciliatory (rek-pn-sil'i-a-to-ri), a. [= OF. 
reconciliatoire, F. rtconciUatoire = Sp. reconcili- 
atorio, < L. reconciliare, pp. reconciliatus, recon- 
cile : see reconcile."] Able or tending to recon- 
cile. 
Those reconciliatory papers fell under the eyes of some 
grave divines on both parts. 
Bp. Hall, Specialties of the Life of Bp. Bull. 
recondensation (re-kon-den-sa'shon), . [< 
recondense + -ation.] The act of recondens- 
ing. 
recondense (re-kon-dens'), v. t. [= OF. recon- 
denser = It. ricondensare ; as re- + condense.] 
To condense again. 
recondite (re-kon'dit or rek'pn-dit), a. [< ME. 
*recoin/it, ri'ri,iidft,<OF. recondit = Sp.rec6iii/iti> 
= Pg. It. rcmiitlito, hidden, secret, etc., < L. re- 
reconnoiter 
i-omlitHx, put away, hidden, secret, pp. of recon- 
iltre, put back again, put away, hide, < re-, back, 
miidt-iT, put together: see condiment, con- 
itfi.] 1. Hi 
idden from mental view; secret; 
abstruse : as, recondite causes of things. 
When the most inward and recondite spirits of all things 
shall be dislodged from their old close residences. 
GlanvUle, Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. (Latham.) 
Occasionally, . . . when a question of theological or po- 
litical interest touches upon the more recondite stores of 
history, we have an industrious examination of ancient 
sources. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 55. 
2. Profound; dealing with things abstruse. 
Men of more recondite studies and deep learning. 
Felton, On Reading the Classics. (Latham.) 
It is this mine of recondite quotations in their original 
languages, most accurately translated, which has im- 
parted such an enduring value to this treasure of the an- 
cient theology, philosophy, and literature. 
/. D'Jsraeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 400. 
The most trivial passages he regards as oracles of the 
highest authority, and of the most recondite meaning. 
Macaulay, Dryden. 
3. In hot., concealed; not easily seen. 4. In 
entom., said of organs which are concealed in 
repose : opposed to exserted. Specifically applied 
to the aculeus or sting of a hymenopterous insect when 
it is habitually withdrawn into the body.=Syn. 1. Oc- 
cult, mystical, mysterious, deep. 
reconditeness (re-kon'dit-nes or rek'on-dit- 
nes), n. The character or state of being recon- 
dite; profound or hidden meaning. 
recqnditory (re-kon'di-to-ri), . ; pi. recondi- 
tories (-riz). [= Pg. It. reconditoho, a hiding- 
place, < ML. reconditorium, a repository for 
archives, < L. recondere, pp. reconditus, put or 
hide away: see recondite.] A repository; a 
storehouse or magazine. [Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
reconduct (re-kon-dukf), v. t. [< L. recon- 
ducttis, pp. of reconducere, bring back, hire anew 
(> It. ricondurre, prorogue, continue, = Sp. re- 
conducir, renew a lease, = Pg. reconduzir = 
F. reconduire, reconduct), < re-, back, + condtt- 
cere } lead: see conduct."] To conduct back or 
again. 
Amidst this new creation want'st a guide 
To reconduct thy steps ? 
Dryden, State of Innocence, ii. 1. 
reconduction (re-kon-duk'shon), n. [= F. re- 
conduction = Sp. reconduccion, renewal of a 
lease, = Pg. reconduccclo, prorogation, con- 
tinuance, < NL. *reconductio(n-), < L. recon- 
ducere, pp. reconductvs, hire anew: see recon- 
duct.] In law, a renewal of a lease. 
reconfirm (re-kon-ferm'), v. t. [<OF. (and F.) 
reconfirmer, < ML. reconflrmare, confirm anew, 
< L. re-, again, + confirmare, confirm : see con- 
firm.] To confirm anew. Clarendon, Life, III. 
835. 
reconjoin (re-kon-join'), v. t. [= It. ricon- 
gingnerc, < WL."reconjungere, join again, < L. 
re-, again, + conjungere, conjoin : see conjoin.] 
To conjoin or join anew. Boyle, Works, I. 739. 
reconnaissance (re-kon'a-sans), n. [Also re- 
connaissance; < F. reconnaissance, formerly re- 
connaissance, recognition, reconnaissance: see 
recognizance.] The act or operation of recon- 
noitering; preliminary examination or survey. 
Specifically (a) An examination of a territory or of an 
enemy's position, for the purpose of directing military 
operations, (b) An examination or survey of a region in 
reference to its general geological character, (c) An ex- 
amination of a region as to its general natural features, 
preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes 
of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public 
work, as a road, a railway, or a canal. Reconnaissance 
in force (milit.), a demonstration or attack by a consid- 
erable body of men for the purpose of discovering the 
position or strength of an enemy. 
reconnoissance (rek-o-noi'sins), n. Same as 
reconnaissance. 
reconnoiter, reconnoitre (rek-o-noi'ter), v. ; 
pret. and pp. reconnoitered, reconnoitred, ppr. 
reconnoitering, reconnoitring. [< OF. recognois- 
tre, reconoistre, F. reconnoitre, recognize, take 
a precise view of: see recognize 1 .] I. trans. 1+. 
To know again ; recognize. 
So incompetent has the generality of historians been for 
the province they have undertaken, that it is almost a 
question whether, if the dead of past ages could revive, 
they would lie able to reconnoitre the events of their own 
times as transmitted to us by ignorance and misrepresen- 
tation. Walpolc, Historic Doubts, Pref. 
He would hardly have reconnoitred Wildgoose, however. 
in his short hair and his present uncouth appearance. 
Grams, Spiritual Quixote, iv. 1. (Davies.) 
2. To examine with the eye ; make a prelimi- 
nary survey of; specifically, to examine or 
survey, as a tract or region, for military, engi- 
neering, or geological purposes. See recon- 
naissance. 
