Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-CUR'
RE-CU'PER-A-TIVE, or RE-CU'PER-A-TO-RYRE-CURE
RE-CUR', v.i. [L. recurro; re and curro, to run; Fr. recourir.]
- 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.
- 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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