Dictionary: RE-CES'SION – RE-CIP'RO-CAL-NESS

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RE-CES'SION, n. [L. recessio.]

  1. The act of withdrawing, retiring or retreating.
  2. The act of receding from a claim, or of relaxing a demand. – South.
  3. A cession or granting back; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

RE-CHANGE', v.t. [Fr. rechanger; re and change.]

To change again.

RE-CHANG'ED, pp.

Changed again.

RE-CHANG'ING, ppr.

Changing again.

RE-CHARGE', v.t. [Fr. recharger; re and charge.]

  1. To charge or accuse in return. – Hooker.
  2. To attack again; to attack anew. – Dryden.

RE-CHARG'ED, pp.

Accused in return; attacked anew.

RE-CHARG'ING, ppr.

Accusing in return; attacking anew.

RE-CHAR'TER, n.

A second charter; a renewal of a charter. – D. Webster.

RE-CHAR'TER, v.t.

To charter again; to grant a second or another charter to.

RE-CHAR'TER-ED, pp.

Chartered a second time.

RE-CHAR'TER-ING, ppr.

Chartering a second time.

RE-CHAS'TEN-ED, a.

Chastened again.

RE-CHEAT', n. [said to be from old French.]

Among hunters, a lesson which the huntsman winds on the horn when the hounds have lost the game, to call them back from pursuing a counter scent. – Shak.

RE-CHEAT', v.t.

To blow the recheat. – Drayton.

RE-CHOOSE, v.t. [rechooz'.]

To choose a second time.

RE-CHOS'EN, pp. [or adj.; recho'zn.]

Re-elected; chosen again.

RE-CID'I-VATE, v.i. [recidivo.]

To backslide; to fall again.

RE-CID-I-VA'TION, n. [L. recidivus, from recido, to fall back; re and cado, to fall.]

A falling back; a backsliding. [Not much used.] – Hammond.

RE-CID'I-VOUS, a. [L. recidivus.]

Subject to backslide. [Little used.]

REC-I-PE, n. [res'ipy; L. imperative of recipio, to take.]

A medical prescription; a direction of medicines to be taken by a patient. – Encyc.

RE-CIP'I-ENT, n. [L. recipiens, recipio.]

  1. A receiver; the person or thing that receives; he or that to which any thing is communicated.
  2. The receiver of a still. – Decay of Piety.

RE-CIP'RO-CAL, a. [L. reciprocus; Sp. and It. reciproco; Fr. reciproque.]

  1. Acting in vicissitude or return; alternate. Corruption is reciprocal to generation. – Bacon.
  2. Mutual; done by each to the other; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal benefits or favors; reciprocal duties; reciprocal aid.
  3. Mutually interchangeable. These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined. – Watts. Reciprocal terms, in logic, those terms that have the same signification, and consequently are convertible and may be used for each other. – Encyc. Reciprocal quantities in mathematics, are those which, multiplied together, produce unity. – Encyc. Reciprocal figures, in geometry, are those which have the antecedents and consequents of the same ratio in both figures. – Encyc. Reciprocal ratio, is the ratio between the reciprocals of two quantities; as, the reciprocal ratio of 4 to 9, is that of 1/4 to 1/9.

RE-CIP'RO-CAL, n.

The reciprocal of any quantity, is unit; divided by that quantity. Thus the reciprocal of 4 is 1/4.

RE-CIP'RO-CAL-LY, adv.

Mutually; interchangeably; such a manner that each affects the other and is equally affected by it. These two particles do reciprocally affect each other with the same force. – Bentley.

RE-CIP'RO-CAL-NESS, n.

Mutual return; alternateness. – Decay of Piety.