reconnoiter 
These gardens also seem to he those where Titus was in 
such great danger when he came to reconnoitre the city. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 19. 
An aged, sour-visaged domestic reconnoitered them 
through a small square hole in the door. 
Scott, Kenilworth, lii. 
II. intruns. To make a survey or inspection 
preliminary to taking some action ; examine a 
position, person, opinion, etc., as a precaution. 
He ... thrust out his head, and, after recormotterinij for 
a couple of minutes, drew it in again. 
Barham, in Mem. prefixed to Ingoldsby Legends, I. 51. 
She saw a tardigrade slowly walking round a bladder 
[of Utricularia clandestina], as if reconnoitring. 
Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 40S. 
reconnoiter, reconnoitre (rek-o-noi'ter), . 
[< reconnoiter, reconnoitre, v.] A preliminary 
survey; a reconnaissance. 
Satisfied with his reconnoitre, Losely quitted the skele- 
ton pile. Bulwer, What Will He Do with It? x. 1. 
reconquer (re-kong'ker), v. t. [< OF. reconque- 
rir, recontjuerre, F. reconquerir (cf. Sp. Pg. recon- 
quistar = It. riconquistare) ; as re- + conquer.] 
1 . To conquer again ; recover by conquest. 
Belisarius has reconquered Africa from the Vandals. 
Brougham. 
2. To recover ; regain. 
Nor has Protestantism in the course of two hundred 
years been able to reco>tquer any portion of what she then 
lost. Macaulay, Von Kanke's Hist. Popes. 
reconquest (re-kong'kwest), . [< OF. recon- 
queste, F. reconguete = Sp. Pg. reconquista = 
It. riconquista; as re- + conquest.] A second 
or repeated conquest. Hall. 
reconsecrate (re-kon'se-krat), c. t. [< re- + 
consecrate.'] To consecrate anew. 
If a church should be consumed by flre, it shall, in such 
a case, be reconsecrated. Aylife, Parergon. 
reconsecration (re-kon-se-kra'shon), . [< re- 
+ consecration."] A renewed consecration. 
reconsider (re-kon-sid'er). r. t. [< OF. recon- 
siderer, F. neontUUrer = It. riconsiderare ; as 
re- + consider.] 1. To consider again; turn 
over in the mind again ; review. 
Reconsider from time to time, and retain the friendly 
advice which I send you. Chesterfield. 
He had set himself ... to reconsider his worn suits of 
clothes, to leave on* meat for breakfast, to do without pe- 
riodicals. Oeorge Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxir. 
2. In parliamentary language, to take into con- 
sideration a second time, generally with the 
view of rescinding or of amending: as, to re- 
consider a motion in a legislative body; to re- 
consider a vote. 
It is believed the motion to reconsider, as in use in this 
country [the United States], is of American origin. 
Gushing, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 257 
reconsideration (re-kon-sid-e-ra'shon), n. [< 
reconsider + -ation.] The act of reconsidering. 
(a) A renewed consideration or review in the mind. 
Unless on reconsideration it should appear that some 
of the stronger inductions have been expressed with 
greater universality than their evidence warrants, the 
weaker one must give way. J. S. Mill, Logic, III. iv. 3. 
(b) A second consideration ; specifically, in deliberative 
assemblies, the taking up for renewed consideration that 
which has been passed 01 acted upon previously, as a mo- 
tion, vote, etc. Usually a motion to reconsider can be 
made only by a person who voted with the majority. 
The inconvenience of this rule (that a decision by vote 
cannot be again brought into question] . . . has led to 
the introduction into the parliamentary practice of this 
country (the United States] of the motion for reconsidera 
tion. Cushimj, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 254. 
reconsolatet (re-kon'so-lat), v. t. [< re- + con- 
solate. Cf. OF\ (and'F.) reconsoler = It. ri- 
consolart;.] To console or comfort again. 
That only God who can reconmlate us both. 
Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiae, p. 439. 
reconsolidate (re-kon-sol'i-dat), r. t. [< re- + 
consolidate. Cf. F. reconsolider, reconsolidate.] 
To consolidate anew. 
reconsolidation (re-kon-sol-i-da'shon), n. [< 
reconsolidate + -tore.] The act of reconsolidat- 
ing, or the state of being reconsolidated; a 
second or renewed consolidation. 
recqnstituent (re-kon-stit'u-ent), a. Reconsti- 
tuting; forming anew; giving a new character 
or constitution to. Nature, XL. 636. [Bare.] 
reconstitute (re-kon'sti-tut), r. t. [< re- + 
constitute.] To constitute anew; furnish again 
with a constitution, whether the original or a 
different one. 
reconstitution (re-kon-sti-tu'shon), it. [= F. 
reconstitution ; as reconstitute + -/.] The act 
or process of forming anew, or of bringing to- 
gether again the parts or constituents of any- 
thing that has been broken up or destroyed. 
No thorough reconstitution of the council was, however, 
made during the reign. Stubbs, Const Hist., $ 367. 
5008 
reconstruct (re-kon-strukf), c. t. [< re- + con- 
struct. Cf. OF. (and F.) rcconstruire = Pg. re- 
construir, reconstruct.] To construct again: 
rebuild. 
The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South ; but 
first the North had to be reconstructed. 
h'nierson. Address, Soldiers' Monument, Concord. 
Out of an enormous amount of material, Carlyle recon- 
struct* for us Frederick William I. of Prussia, a living, 
moving, tantalising reality. 
Stubbi, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 9i 
reconstruction (re-kon-struk'shon), n. [= F. 
reconstruction = Sp. reconstruccion = Pg. recon- 
strucqdlo; as reconstruct + -ion.] 1. The act 
of constructing again. 
Goethe . . . has left an interesting memorial of Euri- 
pidean study in his attempted reconstruction of the lost 
Phaethon. Encyc. Brit., Vni. 679. 
2. Specifically, in U. S. hist., the process by 
whicn, after the civil war, the States which had 
seceded were restored to the rights and privi- 
leges inherent in the Union. The period of re- 
construction extended from 1865 to about 1870. 
3. That which is reconstructed. [Bare.] 
A fleet of above thirty vessels, all carrying cannon, was 
in about three months little less than created, though a 
few of the largest were reconstructions, having been first 
framed and sent over from Great Britain. 
Beliham, Hist. Great Britain, an. 1777. 
Reconstruction Acts, two acU of Congress, of which the 
first, entitled "an act to provide for the more efficient 
government of the rebel States," was passed over the 
President's veto on March 2d, 1867 ; and the second, a sup- 
plementary act, was passed later in the same month. 
These acts embodied the congressional plan of reconstruc- 
tion, providing that every State should remain under mili- 
tary government until certain acte should be performed. 
The principal conditions were that each State should hold 
a convention and frame a constitution ; that this constitu- 
tion must be ratified by popular vote and approved by Con- 
gress ; that the new State legislature must ratify the Four- 
teenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ; and 
that when the requisite number of States had ratified this 
amendment, any State which had fulfilled all requirements 
should be readmitted to the Union, and entitled to con- 
gressional representation. By 1870 all the seceding States 
were readmitted, but they were not all represented in Con- 
gress until 1871. 
reconstructionary (re-kon-struk'shon-a-ri), a. 
[< reconstruction + -art/."] Of or pertaining to 
reconstruction, especially to reconstruction in 
the southern United States: as, " reconstruc- 
tionary influence," Congregationalist, June 17, 
1886. [Rare.] 
reconstructionist (re-kon-struk'shon-ist), n. 
[< reconstruction + -int.] An adherent of re- 
construction ; specifically, in U. S. politics, an 
adherent of the policy of reconstruction in the 
South. 
The Republican rcconxtructionixtx . . . barred the way. 
J. C. Harris, Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 703. 
reconstructive (re-kou-struk'tiv), a. andn. [< 
reconstruct + -ive.] " I. . Tending to recon- 
struct ; having the power of reconstructing. 
II. n. In med., that which is adapted or ser- 
viceable for reconstructing. 
Oysters, on the other hand, are extremely useful as nerve 
reconstructive!. Science, XV. 219. 
recontinuance (re-kon-tin'u-ans), n. [< recon- 
tinue + -ance.] The state of recontinuing ; re- 
newed continuance. [Rare.] 
Of which course some have wished a reconiinuance. 
Selden, Illustrations of Drayton's Polyolbion, iv. 177. 
recontinue (re-kon-tin'u), v. t. and i. [< OF. 
(and F.) recontiriuer; as re- + continue.] To 
continue again or anew. [Rare.] 
All at an instant shall together go, 
To recontinue, not beginning so. 
Stirling, Doomesday, The Fourth Hour. 
reconvalescence (re-kon-va-les'ens), n. [< re- 
+ convalescence.] Complete restoration of 
health. 
reconvene (re-kon-ven' ), v. [< ML. reconvenire, 
make an additional demand in a suit at law, lit. 
'come together again,' < L. re-, again, + conve- 
nire, come together : see convene.] I. intrans. 
To come together again. 
II. trans. To call together again. 
reconventt (re-kon-vent'), v. t. [< ML. rcetm- 
ventus, pp. of reconvenire, in lit. sense come 
together again': see reconvene, convent.] To 
bring together, assemble, or collect again. 
He reconnecting armes therefore. 
Warner, Albion's England, v. 27. 
reconvention (re-kon-ven'shon), n. [< OF. 
(and F.) reconvention = Sp.'reconvencion = 
Pg. reconven^ao = It. riconvenzione, < ML. re- 
conventio(n-), a contrary action brought by a 
defendant, < reconvenire: see reconvene.] In 
law, an action by a defendant against a plaintiff 
in a previous or pending action ; a cross-bill or 
counter-claim. Thus, one who could not be made rte- 
record 
fendant in an original action, by reason of not being sub- 
ject to the jurisdiction, may in some cases, if he sues as 
plaintiff, be compelled to respond to a cross-action or 
counter-claim, by way of reconvention in reduction or ex- 
tinction of his demand. 
reconversion (ro-kon-ver'shon), n. [< re- + 
conversion.] A seconder renewed conversion ; 
also, a conversion back to a previous belief. 
reconvert (re-kou-vert'), . ' [< OF. (and F.) 
rmnirertir = It. riconvertire ; as re- + convert, 
v.] To convert a second time ; also, to convert 
back to a previously abandoned belief. 
About this time the East Saxons, who . . . had expell'd 
their Bishop Mellitus, and renounc'd the Faith, were by 
the means of Oswi . . . reconverted. Milton, Hist. Eng., iv. 
reconvey (re-kon-va'), r. t. [< OF. (and F.) 
reconvier, also reconvoyer, reeonvey, reconvoy ; 
as re- + convey.] 1. To convey back or to its 
former place : as, to reconvey goods. 
As rivers, lost in seas, some secret vein 
Thence reconeeys, there to be lost again. 
Sir J. Denham, Cooper's Hill. 
2. To transfer back to a former owner: as, to 
reconvey an estate. 
reconveyance (re-kon-va'ans), . [< reconvey 
+ -.] The act of reconvey ing; especially, 
the act of transferring a title back to a former 
proprietor. 
record (re-kdrd'), r. [< ME. recorden, < OF. re- 
corder, repeat, recite, report, F. recorder = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. recordar = It. ricordare, < L. recordari, 
LL. also recordare, call to mind, remember, 
recollect, think over, meditate upon, ML. also 
recite, record, revise, < re-, again, + cor(d-), 
heart, = E. heart : see cordial. Cf. accord, con- 
cord, discord.] I. trans. If. To call to mind; 
recall; remember; bear in mind. 
Preyeth to God, lord of misericorde, 
Our olde glltes that he nat recorde. 
Chaucer, Mother of God, 1. 119. 
In solitary silence, far from wight, 
He gan record the lamentable stowre 
In which his wretched love lay day and night. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xii. 19. 
2f. To recall (to another's mind) ; remind. 
Ye woote youre forward, and I it you recorde. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 829. 
3f. To bring to mind; suggest. 
For every other wey ye kan recorde, 
Myn herte ywis may therwith noght acorde. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1518. 
4f. To see or know by personal presence ; bear 
witness to; attest. 
For thei that misseden here mete wold make gret noyse, 
& record it redeli in Rome al a-boute. 
WiUiam of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), I. 1828. 
And alle ryghtful recordeden that Reson treuthe seyde. 
Piers Plowman (C), v. 151. 
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, 
that I have set before you life and death. Deut. xxx. 19. 
How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts 
Rome shall record. Shalt., Tit. And., i. 1. 255. 
5. To recite; repeat; sing; play. 
Lay al this mene while Troylus 
ttecordynge his lesaon in this manere : 
"Ma fey I" thoght he, "thus wol I seyeand thus." 
Chaucer, Troilus, ill. 51. 
And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune my distresses and record my woes. 
Shak., T. G. of V., v. 4. 6. 
For you are fellows only know by rote, 
As birds record their lessons. 
Fletcher, Valentinian, U. 1. 
6. To preserve the memory of by written or 
other characters ; take a note of; register; en- 
roll ; chronicle ; note ; write or inscribe in a 
book or on parchment, paper, or other mate- 
rial, for the purpose of preserving authentic or 
correct evidence of: as, to record the proceed- 
ings of a court ; to record a deed or lease ; to re- 
cord historical events. 
The Levites were recorded . . . chief of the fathers. 
Neh. xii. 22. 
That he do record a gift, 
Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd, 
Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 3S8. 
And I recorded what I heard, 
A lesson for mankind. 
Cowper, The Doves. 
7. To mark distinctly. [Rare.] 
So even and mom recorded the third day. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 338. 
8. Figuratively, to imprint deeply on the mind 
or memory: as, to record the sayings of another 
in the heart Recording bell, secretary, tele- 
graph, etc. See the nouns. Recording gage, a gage 
provided with means for leaving a visible record of its in- 
dications. =Syn. 6. Record, Register, Chronicle, Enroll, En- 
list. To record events, facts, words : to register persons, 
voters, things ; to enroll volunteers, scholars ; to chronicle 
