recouched

Verb

recouch (third-person singular simple present recouches, present participle recouching, simple past and past participle recouched)

1. (transitive) To rephrase.
   • to recouch an idea in Freudian terms
2. (obsolete) To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.
   • Then Lions Whelps lie roaring for their Prey,
     And at thy powerful Hand demand their Food;
     Who when at Morn they all recouch again,
     Then toyling Man till Eve pursues his pain.1651, Henry Wotton, A Translation of the CIV. Psalm to the Original Sense