Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 21

Recommending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recommend

Recommend (v. t.) To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.

Recommend (v. t.) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.

Recommend (v. t.) To commit; to give in charge; to commend.

Recommendable (a.) Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.

Recommendation (n.) The act of recommending.

Recommendation (n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.

Recommendation (n.) The state of being recommended; esteem.

Recommendative (n.) That which recommends; a recommendation.

Recommendatory (a.) Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory.

Recommender (n.) One who recommends.

Recommission (v. t.) To commission again; to give a new commission to.

Recommit (v. t.) To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Recommitment (n.) Alt. of Recommittal

Recommittal (n.) A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Recompact (v. t.) To compact or join anew.

Recompensation (n.) Recompense.

Recompensation (n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

Recompensed (imp. & p. p.) of Recompense

Recompensing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recompense

Recompense (v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

Recompense (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.

Recompense (v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

Recompense (v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.

Recompense (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

Recompensement (n.) Recompense; requital.

Recompenser (n.) One who recompenses.

Recompensive (a.) Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.

Recompilation (n.) A new compilation.

Recompile (v. t.) To compile anew.

Recompilement (n.) The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.

Recomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Recompose

Recomposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recompose

Recompose (v. t.) To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.

Recompose (v. t.) To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind.

Recomposer (n.) One who recomposes.

Recomposition (n.) The act of recomposing.

Reconcilable (a.) Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.

Reconciled (imp. & p. p.) of Reconcile

Reconciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reconcile

Reconcile (v. t.) To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.

Reconcile (v. t.) To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.

Reconcile (v. t.) To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

Reconcile (v. t.) To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.

Reconcile (v. i.) To become reconciled.

Reconcilement (n.) Reconciliation.

Reconciler (n.) One who reconciles.

Reconciliation (n.) The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.

Reconciliation (n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.

Reconciliatory (a.) Serving or tending to reconcile.

Recondensation (n.) The act or process of recondensing.

Recondense (v. t.) To condense again.

Recondite (a.) Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

Recondite (a.) Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.

Reconditory (n.) A repository; a storehouse.

Reconduct (v. t.) To conduct back or again.

Reconfirm (v. t.) To confirm anew.

Reconfort (v. t.) To recomfort; to comfort.

Reconjoin (v. t.) To join or conjoin anew.

Reconnoissance (n.) Alt. of Reconnaissance

Reconnaissance (n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.

Reconnaissance (n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.

Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work.

Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.

Reconnoiter (v. t.) Alt. of Reconnoitre

Reconnoitre (v. t.) To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

Reconnoitre (v. t.) To recognize.

Reconquer (v. t.) To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.

Reconquest (n.) A second conquest.

Reconsecrate (v. t.) To consecrate anew or again.

Reconsecration (n.) Renewed consecration.

Reconsider (v. t.) To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

Reconsider (v. t.) To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.

Reconsideration (n.) The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Reconsolate (v. t.) To console or comfort again.

Reconsolidate (v. t.) To consolidate anew or again.

Reconsolidation (n.) The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Reconstruct (v. t.) To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

Reconstruction (n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

Reconstruction (n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

Reconstructive (a.) Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.

Recontinuance (n.) The act or state of recontinuing.

Recontinue (v. t. & i.) To continue anew.

Reconvene (v. t. & i.) To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.

Reconvention (n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.

Reconversion (n.) A second conversion.

Reconvert (v. t.) To convert again.

Reconvert (n.) A person who has been reconverted.

Reconvertible (a.) Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.

Reconvey (v. t.) To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.

Reconvey (v. t.) To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.

Reconveyance (n.) Act of reconveying.

Recopy (v. t.) To copy again.

Recorded (imp. & p. p.) of Record

Recording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Record

Record (v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

Record (v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

Record (v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

Record (v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.

Record (v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.

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