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English
Etymology
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
Verb
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:St Ethelwold, King of the same Prouince and Martyr: who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects, and his body brought to the Church of Hexam... the same was with great solemnity & veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so pretious a treasure.
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
- Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "recond, v." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2009.
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