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recommence, v.|riːkəˈmɛns|
[ad. F. recommencer (11th c.): see re- and commence v.]
1. intr. To begin again.
1481Caxton Godfrey clxiv. 242 Thenne recommenced and began agayn the playnte and the clamour. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1140 Violence That never ends, but aie doth recommence. c1645Howell Lett. i. xxxii. 276 If any odd thoughts intervene and grow upon me, I check my self, and recommence. 1812Southey Omniana II. 238 Shortly afterwards that war recommenced. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xii. 87 The sound..ceased, but it soon recommenced.
b. With complement. (See commence v. 3 b.)
1778–81Johnson L.P., Swift Wks. III. 396 He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier. 1791Bentham Wks. (1843) X. 266, I am recommenced wild beast.
2. trans. To cause to begin again; to renew.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 313 The Frenshe Kynge had recommencyd his warre. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xiii. 48 [He] caused to be recommenced the works of Calcedon. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 178 Whensoeuer the said Duke shall re-commence his former suit. 1784King Cook's 3rd Voy. vi. ii. III. 210 We..told him, that we purposed recommencing our voyage about the 5th of June. 1829Southey Sir T. More I. 250 Well will it be if the present age should not see its ravages recommenced. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 185 The two brothers recommence their exhortation to virtue.
Hence recoˈmmencing ppl. a.
1830J. Douglas Truths Relig. (1832) II. 114 The fancy of the recommencing series of existences is realised. |