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.