recomfort

From Anglo-Norman reconforter, Middle French reconforter, from re- + conforter.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈkʌmfət/

recomfort (third-person singular simple present recomforts, present participle recomforting, simple past and past participle recomforted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To console (someone); to comfort, look after.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxxiiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:

     With that cam his moder the quene of Orkeney dame Morgause / And whan she sawe syr Gareth redely in the vysage she myghte not wepe but sodenly felle doun in a swoune / and lay there a grete whyle lyke as she had ben dede / And thenne syr Gareth recomforted his moder in suche wyse that she recouerd and made good chere

2. (transitive, now rare) To inspire with new courage; to encourage.
3. (transitive, now rare) To reinvigorate, to strengthen.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

• Comforter, comforter