Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: RE-COUNT' – REC'RE-AT-ING
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RE-COUNT', v.t. [Fr. reconter; Sp. recontar; It. raccontare; re and count.]
To relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars; to rehearse. Say from these glorious seeds what harvest flows, / Recount our blessings, and compare our woes. – Dryden.
RE-COUNT'ED, pp.
Related or told in detail; recited.
RE-COUNT'ING, ppr.
Relating in a series; narrating.
RE-COUNT'MENT, n.
Relation in detail; recital. [Little used.] – Shak.
RE-COUR'ED, pp.
for Recovered or Recured. [Not used.] Spenser.
RE-COURSE, n. [Fr. recours; It. ricorso; Sp. recurso; L. recursus; re and cursus, curro, to run. Literally a running back; a return.]
- Return; new attack. [Not in use.] – Brown.
- A going to with a request or application, as for aid a protection. Children have recourse to their parents for assistance.
- Application of efforts, art or labor. The general had recourse to stratagem to effect his purpose. Our last recourse is therefore to our art. – Dryden.
- Access. [Little used.]
- Frequent passage. – Shak.
RE-COURSE, v.i.
To return. [Not used.] – Fox.
RE-COURSE-FUL, a.
Moving alternately. [Not in use.] – Drayton.
RE-COV-ER, v.i.
- To regain health after sickness; to grew well; followed by of or from. Go, inquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease. – 2 Kings i.
- To regain a former state or condition after misfortune; as, to recover from a state of poverty or depression.
- To obtain a judgment in law; to succeed in a lawsuit. The plaintif has recovered in his suit.
RE-COV-ER, v.t. [Fr. recouvrer; It. ricoverare or ricuperare; Sp. and Port. recobrar; L. recupero; re and capio, to take.]
- To regain; to get or obtain that which was lost; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover a town or territory which an enemy had taken; to recover sight or senses; to recover health or strength after sickness. David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. – 1 Sam. xxx.
- To restore from sickness; as, to recover one from leprosy. – 2 Kings v.
- To revive from apparent death; as, to recover a drowned man.
- To gain by reparation; to repair the loss of, or to repair an injury done by neglect; as, to recover lost time. Good men have lapses and failings to lament and recover. – Rogers.
- To regain a former state by liberation from capture or possession. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. – 2 Tim. ii.
- To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and cost in a suit at law.
- To reach; to come to. The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough. – Shak.
- To obtain title to by judgment in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery.
RE-COV-ER-A-BLE, a.
- That may be regained or recovered. Goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
- That may be restored from sickness.
- That may be brought back to a former condition. A prodigal course / Is like the sun's, but not like his recoverable. – Shak.
- That may be obtained from a debtor or possessor. The debt is recoverable.
RE-COV-ER-ED, pp.
Regained; restored; obtained by judicial decision.
RE-COV-ER-EE', n.
In law, the tenant or person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery. – Blackstone.
RE-COV-ER-ING, ppr.
Regaining; obtaining in return or by judgment in law; regaining health.
RE-COV-ER-OR, n.
In law, the demandant or person who obtains a judgment in his favor in common recovery. – Blackstone.
RE-COV-ER-Y, n.
- The act of regaining, retaking or obtaining possession of any thing lost. The crusades were intended for the recovery of the holy land from the Saracens. We offer a reward for the recovery of stolen goods.
- Restoration from sickness or apparent death. The patient has a slow recovery from a fever. Recovery from a pulmonary affection is seldom to be expected. Directions are given for the recovery of drowned persons.
- The capacity of being restored to health. The patient is past recovery.
- The obtaining of right to something by a verdict and judgment of court from an opposing party in a suit; as, the recovery of debt, damages and costs by a plaintif, the recovery of cost by a defendant; the recovery of land in ejectment. Common recovery, in law, is a species of assurance by matter of record, or a suit or action, actual or fictitious, by which lands are recovered against the tenant of the freehold; which recovery binds all persons, and vests an absolute fee-simple in the recoverer. – Blackstone.
REC'RE-AN-CY, a.
A cowardly yielding; Mean spiritedness.
REC'RE-ANT, a. [Norm. recreant, cowardly, properly crying out, from recrier; that is, begging. See Craven.]
- Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; hence, cowardly; mean spirited. – Blackstone.
- Apostate; false. Who for so many benefits receiv'd, / Turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false. – Milton.
REC'RE-ANT, n.
One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a mean spirited, cowardly wretch. Blackstone.
REC'RE-ATE, v.i.
To take recreation. – Addison.
RE-CRE-ATE, v.t.
To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reinforcing, it was necessary to re-create the army. – Marshall.
REC'RE-ATE, v.t. [L. recreo; re and creo, to create; Fr. recreer; It. ricreare; Sp. recrear.]
- To refresh after toil; to reanimate, as languid spirits or exhausted strength; to amuse or divert in weariness. Painters when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green to recreate their eyes. – Dryden. St. John is said to have recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. – Taylor.
- To gratify; to delight. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. – More.
- To relieve; to revive; as, to recreate the lungs with fresh air. – Harvey.
RE-CRE-AT-ED, pp.
Created or formed anew.
RE'CRE-A-TED, pp.
Refreshed; diverted; amused; gratified.
REC'RE-AT-ING, ppr.
Refreshing after toil; reanimation the spirits or strength; diverting; amusing.