reconnoiter, reconnoitre (rekonoiter)

[ Satisfied with his recon noître, Losely quitted the skele Bulwer, What Will He Do with It? x. 1. ton pile. reconquer (rē-kong'kėr), v. t. [OF. reconque vir, reconquerre, F. reconquérir (cf. Sp. Pg.recon quistar = It. riconquistare ); as re- + conquer.] 1. To conquer again; recover by conquest. Belisarius has reconquered Africa from the Vandals. Brougham. 2. To recover; regain. IMG:content-1754.png:[blocks in formation] The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed . Emerson , Addre , Soldiers' Monument, Concord. Out of an enormous amount of material, Carlyle recon structs for us Frederick William I. of Pru ia, a living, moving, tantalising reality. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 92. reconstruction (rē-kon-struk's hon), n . [F. reconstruction = Sp. rec onst ruc cion = Pg. recon strucção ; as reconstruct + -ion .] 1. The act of constructing again. Goethe has left an interesting memorial of Euri. pidean study in his attempted reconstruction of the lost Encyc . Brit ., VIII. 679. Phaethon. reconvey (re-kon-vā'), v . t . [ reconvier , also reconvoyer , reconvey, reconvoy; as re- + convey .] 1. To convey back or to its former place: as, to reconvey goods. As rivers, lost in seas, some secret vein Thence reconveys , there to be lost again. 2. Specifically, in U. S. hist ., the proce by which, after the civil war, the States which had seceded were restored to the rights and privi- Sir J. Denham , Cooper's Hill. leges inherent in the Union. The period of re- construction extended from 1865 to about 1870. 2. To transfer back to a former owner: as, to -3. That which is reconstructed. [Rare.] A fleet of above thirty ve els, all carrying cannon, was in about three months little le than created, though a few of the largest were reconstructions , having been first framed and sent over from Great Britain. Belsham , Hist. Great Britain, an. 1777. Reconstruction Acts, two acts of Congre , of which the first, entitled "an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," was pa ed over the President's veto on March 2d, 1867; and the second, a supplementary act, was pa ed later in the same month. These embodied the congre ional plan of reconstruction, providing that every State should remain under military government until certain acts should be performed. The principal conditions were that each State should hold a convention and frame a constitution; that this constitution must be ratified by popular vote and approved by Congre ; that the new State legislature must ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; and that when the requisite number of States had ratified this amendment, any State which had fulfilled all requirements should be readmitted to the Union, and entitled to congre ional representation. By 1870 all the seceding States were readmitted, but they were not all represented in Congre until 1871. [ reconvey reconvey an estate. reconveyance (re-kon-vā'ans), n. + -ance.] The act of reconveying; especially, the act of transferring a title back to a former proprietor.