Definition of "recompose"

So far as we can recompose, from the broken fragments of tradition, a picture of the religious and political condition of the Eleusinian people in the olden time

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 107

Mr Blifil, I am confident, understands himself better than to think of seeing my niece any more this morning, after what hath happened. Women are of a nice contexture; and our spirits, when disordered, are not to be recomposed in a moment.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling