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recompose, v.|riːkəmˈpəʊz|
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. recomposer (1549), L. recompōnĕre.]
1. trans. To put together again; to recombine; to form again by composition. Chiefly in antithesis to decompose.
1611Cotgr., Recomposer, to recompose, to frame anew. 1649J. H. Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn. 6 These..industries that endeavour to gather them up, and..recompose them. 1663Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours iii. xiv. Wks. 1772 I. 738 We were able to produce a lovely purple, which we can destroy or recompose at pleasure. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 337 To take to Pieces, recompose, and ascertain our Evidences. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. xvii. 200 Whatever is decomposed may be recomposed by the being who first composed it. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. vi. (1859) I. 97 The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed.
absol.1861Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 389 Fire and water..can really destroy nothing, but can only decompose and recompose.
b. To compose again in writing. rare—1.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxxiv. (1674) 111 [They] desire..that Tacitus may re-compose those Books of his..which are lost.
2. To put together again in a new form or manner; to rearrange.
18162nd Rep. Comm. Public Rec. App. ⁋5 The old Titles have in most Cases been re-composed. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 144 The change was not confined to the officers alone. The ranks were completely broken up and recomposed. 1861J. Pycroft Ways & Words 21 He [Simeon] once told Mr. Carns that he had recomposed the plan of one discourse nearly thirty times.
b. absol. To make new (artistic) compositions.
1861Thornbury Turner (1862) II. 326 Turner never imitated Salvator Rosa—because he had rocks and torrents of his own to go and copy and recompose from.
3. To restore to composure. Also refl.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. iv. 124 He called for a minstrell, who by his harmony might recompose his disunited and troubled spirit. 1655Theophania 92 *When we had recomposed our selves..we sate in the Cabin descanting thereon. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. v, I shall never recompose my features to receive Sir Rowland with any Œconomy of face. 1749Fielding Tom Jones Wks. 1775 III. 86 Our spirits, when disordered, are not to be re⁓composed in a moment.
4. To restore to harmony.
1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 332 A man who..was the most likely to recompose the quarrels in the church.
Hence recomˈposed ppl. a., recomˈposing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iv. xviii. 527 The recomposing of this Church to any Ecclesiasticall Uniformity. 1700Congreve Way of World iv. i, It..furnishes with blushes, and re⁓composing airs beyond comparison. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Recomposition, The recomposed body shall not be distinguishable by the senses from that which never had been separated by the fire. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. ii. xi. (ed. 2) 293 Boulders formed out of a recomposed rock. |