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.