Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-CON'SO-LATE, v.t.

To console or comfort again. [Not in use.] – Wotton.

RE-CON-STRUCT', v.t.

To construct again; to rebuild.

RE-CON-STRUCT'ED, pp.

Rebuilt.

RE-CON-STRUC'TION, n.

Act of constructing again.

RE-CON-VENE, v.i.

To assemble or come together again.

RE-CON-VENE, v.t. [re and convene.]

To convene or call together again.

RE-CON-VEN-ED, pp.

Assembled anew.

RE-CON-VEN-ING, ppr.

Assembling anew.

RE-CON-VER'SION, n. [re and conversion.]

A second conversion. – Weever.

RE-CON-VERT', v.t. [re and convert.]

To convert again.

RE-CON-VERT'ED, pp.

Converted again.

RE-CON-VERT'ING, ppr.

Converting again.

RE-CON-VEY, v.t. [re and convey.]

1. To convey back or to its former place; as, to reconvey goods.
2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.

RE-CON-VEY-ANCE, n.

The act of reconveying or transferring a title back to a former proprietor.

RE-CON-VEY-ED, pp.

Conveyed back; transferred to a former owner.

RE-CON-VEY-ING, ppr.

Conveying back; transferring to a former owner.

REC'ORD, n.

1. A register; an authentic or official copy of any writing, or account of any facts and proceedings, entered in a book for preservation; or the book containing such copy or account; as, the records of statutes or of judicial courts; the records of a town or parish. Records are properly the registers of official transactions, made by officers appointed for the purpose, or by the officer whose proceedings are directed by law to be recorded.
2. Authentic memorial; as, the records of past ages. Court of record, is a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial; and their records are the highest evidence of facts, and their truth cannot be called in question. Debt of record, is a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or recognizance. Blackstone. Trial by record, is where a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case, the trial is by inspection of the record itself no other evidence being admissible. Blackstone.

RE-CORD', v.i.

To sing or repeat a tune. [Not in use.] – Shak.

RE-CORD', v.t. [L. recordor, to call to mind, to remember, from re and cor, cordis, the heart or mind; Sp. recordar, to remind, also to awake from sleep; Port. to remind, to con a lesson, or get by heart; Fr. recorder, to con a lesson, also to record.]

1. To register; to enroll; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic or correct evidence of a thing; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record a deed or lease; to record historical events.
2. To imprint deeply on the mind or memory; as, to record the sayings of another in the heart. – Locke.
3. To cause to be remembered. So ev'n and morn recorded the third day. – Milton.
4. To recite; to repent. [Not in use.] – Fairfax.
5. To call to mind. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

REC-ORD-A'TION, n. [L. recordatio.]

Remembrance. [Not in use.] – Shak. Wotton.

RE-CORD'ED, pp.

Registered; officially entered in bask or on parchment; imprinted on the memory.

RE-CORD'ER, n.

1. A person whose official duty is to writings or transactions; one who enrolls or records.
2. An officer of a city who is keeper of the rolls or record; or who is invested with judicial powers.
3. Formerly a kind of flute, flagelet or wind instrument. The figures of recorders, flutes and pipes are straight; but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater above and below. – Bacon.

RE-CORD'ING, n.

Act of placing on record; a record.

RE-CORD'ING, ppr.

Registering; enrolling; the memory.

RE-COUCH', v.i. [re and couch.]

To retire again to a lodge, as lions. – Wotton.