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third-person singular simple present recomposes, present participle recomposing, simple past and past participle recomposed
(transitive) To compose or construct again. quotations examples
So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time
1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107
(transitive) To bring (oneself) back to a state of calm. quotations examples
Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling