recompose

Definition

To compose or construct again.

Etymology

From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.

Example Sentences

• "to dissolve and recompose a substance"
• "So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time"
• "Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment."