reconduct
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈdʌkt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹikənˈdʌkt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: re‧con‧duct
Verb[edit]
reconduct (third-person singular simple present reconducts, present participle reconducting, simple past and past participle reconducted)
- (transitive) To conduct again or back.
- reconduct the orchestra
- 1674 (date written), John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act II, page 11:
- Spirit, who art thou? and from whence arriv'd? / […] / Amidſt this new creation want'ſt a guide, / To reconduct thy ſteps?
References[edit]
- “reconduct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.