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Recompose   Listen
verb
Recompose  v. t.  (past & past part. recomposed; pres. part. recomposing)  
1.
To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly. "The far greater number of the objects presented to our observation can only be decomposed, but not actually recomposed."
2.
To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind.





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"Recompose" Quotes from Famous Books



... of those, 'who to make clean, efface, and who cure diseases by death.' To found so great a thing as the state anew; to dissolve that so old and solid structure, and undertake to recompose it as a whole on the spot, is a piece of work which this chemist, after a survey of his apparatus, declines to take in; though he fairly admits, that if the question were of 'a new world,' and not 'a world already formed to certain customs,' science might have, perhaps, some important suggestions ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon


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