reconsole

reconsole

English

Etymology

re- +‎ console

Verb

reconsole (third-person singular simple present reconsoles, present participle reconsoling, simple past and past participle reconsoled)

1. To console again.
   • 1848, Walter Scott, Narrative of the Life, 1, page 340:

     The vexation he showed at having caused such a disappointment, struck me as amiably characteristic — and in the course of the evening he every now and then threw out some word of admiration to reconsole mamma."

   • 1971, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, page 75:

     Since this much will feed from 4 to 6. and you're apt to have leftovers, you can keep it to reheat and reconsole yourself with the next evening.

   • 1989, Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Macmillan Reference USA (→ISBN), page 185:

     The Perfects increasingly emphasized obedience and hierarchy, and developed a ritual to reconsole those among them who had fallen from the pure way.