recompose

present singular third person recomposes · participle present recomposing · participle past recomposed · past recomposed

1. transitiveTo compose or construct again.

   to dissolve and recompose a substance

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   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

   1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107

2. transitiveTo 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