recond
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin recondō (“to put back, to reestablish; to put away, to hide”), from re- (“again”) + condō (“to build, to form; to store; to conceal”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkənd/, /ɹɪˈkɒnd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkənd/, /ɹəˈkɑnd/, /ɹiˈkɑnd/
Verb edit
recond (third-person singular simple present reconds, present participle reconding, simple past and past participle reconded)
- (obscure, transitive) To put away; to set apart.
- 1608, English Martyrology, John Wilson, section 89:
- 1693, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 17, 657:
- A Ferment […] somewhere reconded out of the Road of the circulating Blood, and there gradually maturated.
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "recond, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009.