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Recompose   Listen
verb
Recompose  v. t.  (past & past part. recomposed; pres. part. recomposing)  
1.
To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly. "The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed."
2.
To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind.






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"Recompose" Quotes from Famous Books



... than to separate the constituent parts of each word; as, ortho-graphy, theo-logy. But when we divide for the third purpose, and intend to show what is the pronunciation of a word, we must, if possible, divide into such syllabic sounds as will exactly recompose the word, when put together again; as, or-thog-ra-phy, the-ol-o-gy. This being the most common purpose of syllabication, perhaps it would be well to give it a general preference; and adopt it whenever we can, not only in the composing of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... and finding out what it was, and what it possessed at that present time: it received the new classical culture presented to it at the fall of the lower empire, and was content to learn the existing, without endeavoring to create the new, or even to recompose the scattered fragments of the past. The eighteenth century saw a new revival: the world had become a man; great progress was reported in arts, in inventions, and in discoveries; science began to labor at the arduous but important task of classification; ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... has carry'd the Humour very far, when he tells us that one of his vain-glorious Countrymen, after having receiv'd Sentence, was taken into custody by a couple of evil Spirits; but that his Guides happening to disorder his Mustachoes, they were forced to recompose them with a Pair of Curling-irons before they could ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... of Temple, when the walls O' the world are that? What use of swells and falls From Levites' choir, Priests' cries, and trumpet-calls? That one Face, far from vanish, rather grows, Or decomposes but to recompose, Become my universe ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various



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