reconjoin

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ conjoin.

Verb

reconjoin (third-person singular simple present reconjoins, present participle reconjoining, simple past and past participle reconjoined)

1. To join or conjoin again.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Some have said that there was a generall soule, like unto a great body, from which all particular, soules were extracted, and returned thither; alwayes reconjoyning and entermingling themselves unto that universall matter […].

   • 1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters:

     Whether the propos'd Water, being in Glass-Vessels exactly luted together slowly and warily abstracted to a thickish substance; This being reconjoin'd to the distill'd Liquor, the Mineral Water will be redintegrated

Anagrams

• conjoiner