Crossword clues for recommence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recommence \Re`com*mence"\ (r?`k?m*m?ns"), v. i.
To commence or begin again.
--Howell.-
To begin anew to be; to act again as. [Archaic.]
He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier.
--Johnson.
Recommence \Re`com*mence"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + commence: cf. F. recommencer.] To commence again or anew.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To begin again.
WordNet
v. cause to start anew; "The Taliban recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet"
beging again; "we recommenced his reading after a short nap"
Usage examples of "recommence".
Therefore was he much aggrieved at having so much abridged the lessons by giving it at Azay, seeing that he would have been quite willing to recommence it, like all of precentors who say the same thing over and over again to their pupils.
The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead ofas is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedygoing home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of -- as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy -- going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow, -- is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
He motioned for Peter to recommence compressing the chest and for Rose to reinflate the lungs.
The uproar recommenced about dawn, continued long enough to delay my attendance upon her Majesty, and presumably has not subsided yet.
When they at last halted and recommenced their flights of shafts, those loosed by the defenders at the men laboring on the abattis slackened perceptibly.
When an initial improvement with the biochemic remedies is not maintained, treatment should be discontinued for a few days and the frequency of dose reduced when recommencing treatment.
The smaller snowplows must have come, because Cater had been cleared, permitting car traffic and curbside crack takeaway to recommence, busy as Outback Steakhouse.
Hutch, Nightingale, and Kellie returned to the tunnel to recommence digging, while Chiang took over guard duty at the entrance and Toni went up to the roof.
His quarry might have eluded him again had not the fights, paused at the Mohock cries, recommenced with double vigour.
Once winching had recommenced, he had obsessively watched the nosewheel, measured its progress - waited for it to reach and surmount the crown of the slope.
The enquirer recommenced his work, and with it the refrain of his song, just where he had left off.
Coldly furious, the Sea Lord slapped the proffered hand, sending the costly baubles flying in all directions, and started to recommence his advance on his victim, only to find that some weight was impeding his leg.
We now recommenced the erection of beacons, which had not been necessary during the ascent.
In spite of the notice which had been sent them that the nuns would not receive them, the bailiff and the civil lieutenant fearing that the royal envoy would allow himself to be imposed on, and would draw up an account which would cast doubt on the facts contained in their reports, betook themselves to the convent on December 1st, the day on which the exorcisms were to recommence, in the presence of the new commissioners.