‖n. [ Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate. ] 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]