Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-COM-PEN-SA'TION, n.

Recompense. [Not used.]

REC'OM-PENSE, n.

1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as, a recompense fur services, for damages, for loss, &c.
2. Requital; return of evil or suffering or other equivalent; as a punishment. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. Heb. ii.

REC'OM-PENSE, v.t. [Fr. recompenser; re and compenser.]

1. To compensate; to make return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or for sacrifices of tune, for loss or damages. The word is followed by the person or the service. We recompense a person for his services, or we recompense his kindness. It is usually found more easy to neglect than to recompense a favor.
2. To requite; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Rom. xii.
3. To make an equivalent return in profit or produce. The labor of man is recompensed by the fruits of the earth.
4. To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent. Solyman – said he would find occasion for them to recompense that disgrace. Knolles.
5. To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Num. v.

REC'OM-PENS-ED, pp.

Rewarded; requited.

REC'OM-PENS-ING, ppr.

Rewarding; compensating; requiting.

RE-COM-PILE-MENT, a. [re and compilement.]

New compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of laws. Bacon.

RE-COM-POSE, v.t. [s as z; re and compose.]

1. To quiet anew; to compose or tranquilize that which is ruffled or disturbed; as, to recompose the mind. Taylor.
2. To compose anew; to form or adjust again. We produced a lovely purple which we can destroy or recompose at pleasure. Boyle.

RE-COM-POS-ED, pp.

Quieted again after agitation; formed anew; composed a second time.

RE-COM-POS-ING, ppr.

Rendering tranquil after agitation; forming or adjusting anew.

RE-COM-PO-SI'TION, n.

Composition renewed.

REC-ON-CIL-A-BLE, a.

1. Capable of being reconciled; capable of renewed friendship. The parties are not reconcilable.
2. That may be made to agree or be consistent; consistent. The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable. Arbuthnot.
3. Capable of being adjusted; as, the difference between the parties is reconcilable.

REC-ON-CIL-A-BLE-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being reconcilable; consistency; as, the reconcilableness of parts of Scripture which apparently disagree.
2. Possibility of being restored to friendship and harmony.

REC-ON-CIL'A-BLY, adv.

In a reconcilable manner.

REC-ON-CILE, v.t. [Fr. reconcilier; L. reconcilio; re and concilio; con and calo, to call, Gr. καλεω. The literal sense is to call back into union.]

1. To conciliate anew; to call back into union and friendship the affections which have been alienated; to restore to friendship or favor after estrangement; as, to reconcile men or parties that have been at variance. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. Go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother. Matth. v. We pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God. 2 Cor. v. Eph. ii. Col. i.
2. To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one's self to afflictions. It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.
3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to. The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state. Locke. Some figures monstrous and misshap'd appear, / Consider'd singly, or beheld too near; / Which but proportion'd to their light and place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace. Pope.
4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.

REC-ON-CIL-ED, pp.

Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement or enmity; made consistent; adjusted.

REC-ON-CILE-MENT, n.

1. Reconciliation; renewal of friendship. Animosities sometimes make reconcilement impracticable.
2. Friendship renewed. No cloud / Of anger shall remain, but peace assured / And reconcilement. Milton.

REC-ON-CIL-ER, n.

1. One who reconciles; one who brings parties at variance into renewed friendship. Fell.
2. One who discovers the consistence of propositions. Norris.

REC-ON-CIL-I-A'TION, n. [Fr. from L. reconciliatio.]

1. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity. Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.
2. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. Dan. ix. Heb. ii.
3. Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent. Rogers.

REC-ON-CIL'I-A-TO-RY, a.

Able or tending to reconcile. Hall.

REC-ON-CIL-ING, ppr.

Bringing into favor and friendship after variance; bringing to content or satisfaction; showing to be consistent; adjusting; making to agree.

RE-CON-DENS-A'TION, n.

The act of recondensing.

RE-CON-DENSE, v.t. [recondens'; re and condense.]

To condense again. Boyle.

RE-CON-DENS'ED, pp.

Condensed anew.

RE-CON-DENS'ING, ppr.

Condensing again.

REC'ON-DITE, a. [L. reconditus; recondo; re and condo, to conceal.]

1. Secret; hidden from the view or intellect; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
2. Profound; dealing in things abstruse; as, recondite studies.