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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RECONCENTRADO

RECONCENTRADO Re *con `cen *tra "do, n. [Sp. , p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate. ]

 

Defn: Lit. , one who has been reconcentrated; specif. , in Cuba, the Philippines, etc. , during the revolution of 1895 -98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.