Word Meanings - RECOMMENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To commence or begin again. Howell. 2. To begin anew to be; to act again as. He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier. Johnson.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECOMMENCE)
- Renew
- Recreate
- restore
- refresh
- renovate
- rejuvenate
- furbish
- recommence
- repeat
- reiterate
- reissue
- regenerate
- reform
- transform
- Resume
- Recommence
- renew
- return
- begin again
Related words: (words related to RECOMMENCE)
- REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - REPEATEDLY
More than once; again and again; indefinitely. - RENOVATE
To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - RETURNLESS
Admitting no return. Chapman. - BEGIN
beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God - REITERATE
To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak. Syn. - REPEATER
One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - REFRESHMENT
1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; - TRANSFORMATION
The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: -- - RESTORE
Restoration. Spenser. - REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - TRANSFORM
To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. His hair transforms to down. Addison. - REJUVENATED
1. Rendered young again; as, rejuvenated life. Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams. Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of - TRANSFORMISM
The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley. - REFORMATORY
An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc. - RENEW
To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - REISSUE
To issue a second time. - PREFORMATIVE
A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart. - PRESUMEDLY
By presumption. - RE-REITERATE
To reiterate many times. "My re-reiterated wish." Tennyson.