RECRUIT Copy link • RECRUIT 1. v. To refresh, repair, Vid: (Of the army), Intransitively, i. e., to beat up recruits, scribere, or legere, milites in supplementum; scribere or conscribere milites; delectum habere; militiam cogere (Liv.). A recruiting sergeant, conquisitor (militum): to be on a recruiting party, esse or versari in aliqua, urbe ad milites comparandos. Transitively, i. e., to restore or supply with recruits, supplere: explere supplemento: delectibus supplere; supplementum scribere alicui: to recruit one’s shattered forces, deminutas copias redintegrare (Caes., B.G. 7, 31). 2. s. novus miles: tiro: miles tiro (opposed to vetus miles, veteranus): recruits, milites tirones: milites in supplementum lecti; supplementum.