recommence

From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier.

recommence (third-person singular simple present recommences, present participle recommencing, simple past and past participle recommenced)

1. To begin again.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.

recommence

1. first-person singular present indicative of recommencer
2. third-person singular present indicative of recommencer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of recommencer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of recommencer
5. second-person singular imperative of recommencer