Definition for RE-CUR'

RE-CUR', v.i. [L. recurro; re and curro, to run; Fr. recourir.]

  1. To return to the thought or mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. – Watts.
  2. To resort; to have recourse. If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. – Locke.

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