recompose
verbEtymology From re + compose; semantically partly borrowed from Latin recompōnō.
1
To compose or construct again.
- 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 time1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107:
2
To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm.
- 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.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- Related terms
- recomposition