Recital – Rectitude

Recital

RECI'TAL, noun [from recite.]

1. Rehearsal; the repetition of the words of another or of a writing; as the recital of a deed; the recital of testimony.

2. Narration; a telling of the particulars of an adventure or of a series of events.

3. Enumeration.

Recitation

RECITA'TION, noun [Latin recitatio.]

1. Rehearsal; repetition of words.

2. In colleges and schools, the rehersal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.

Recitative

RECIT'ATIVE, adjective [See recite.]

Reciting; rehearsing; pertaining to musical pronunciation.

RECIT'ATIVE, noun a kind of musical pronunciation, such as that in which the several parts of the liturgy are rehearsed in churches, or that of actors on the stage, when they express some action or passion, relate some event or reveal some design.

In recitative the composer and the performer endeavor to imitate the inflections, accent and emphasis of natural speech.

[Note. The natural and proper English accent of this word is on the second syllable. The foreign accent may well be discarded.]

Recitatively

RECIT'ATIVELY, adverb In the manner of recitative.

Recite

RECI'TE, verb transitive [Latin recito; re and cito, to call or name.]

1. To rehearse; to repeat the words of another or of a writing; as, to recite the words of an author or of a deed or covenant.

2. In writing, to copy; as, the words of a deed are recited in the pleading.

3. To tell over; to relate; to narrate; as to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.

4. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.

5. To enumerate.

RECI'TE, verb intransitive To rehearse a lesson. The class will recite at eleven o'clock.

RECITE. for recital. [Not in use.]

Recited

RECI'TED, participle passive Rehearsed; told; repeated; narrated.

Reciter

RECI'TER, noun One that recites or rehearses; a narrator.

Reciting

RECI'TING, participle present tense Rehearsing; telling; repeating narrating.

Reck

RECK, verb intransitive [Latin rego. See Rack and Reckon.]

To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of. obsolete

Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.

I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.

Of night or loneliness it recks me not.

RECK, verb transitive To heed; to regard; to care for.

This son of mine not recking danger.

[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, 'it recks me not, ' that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]

Reckless

RECK'LESS, adjective Careless; heedless; mindless.

I made the king reckless as them diligent.

Recklessness

RECK'LESSNESS, noun Heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.

[These words, formerly disused, have been recently revived.]

Reckon

RECKON, verb transitive rek'n. [Latin rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]

1. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.

The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated. Leviticus 27:18.

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.

2. To esteem; to account; to repute. Romans 8:18.

For him I reckon not in high estate.

3. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.

He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 22:37.

4. To assign in an account. rom. 4.

5. to compute; to calculate.

RECK'ON, verb intransitive

1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.

I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. Isaiah 38:13.

2. To charge to account; with on.

I call posterity into the debt, and reckon on her head.

3. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.

If they fall in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.

1. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other. In this manner the countrymen of New England who have mutual dealings, reckon with each other at the end of each year, or as often as they think fit.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Matthew 25:19.

2. To call to punishment.

God suffers the most grievous sins of particular persons to go unpunished in this world, because his justice will have another opportunity to meet and reckon with them.

To reckon on or upon, to lay stress or dependence on. He reckons on the support of his friends.

Reckoned

RECKONED, participle passive rek'nd. Counted; numbered; esteemed; reputed; computed; set or assigned to in account.

Reckoner

RECKONER, noun rek'ner. One who reckons or computes.

RECKONERs without their host must reckon twice.

Reckoning

RECKONING, participle present tense rek'ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.

RECK'ONING, noun

1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.

2. An account of time.

3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement and comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, 'short reckonings make long friends.'

The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often.

4. The charges or account made by a host.

A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning

5. Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7.

6. Esteem; account; estimation.

You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.

7. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning

Reckoning-Book

RECK'ONING-BOOK, noun a book in which money received and expended is entered.

Reclaim

RECLA'IM, verb transitive [Latin reclama. re and clamo, to call. See Claim.]

1. To claim back; to demand to have returned. The vender may reclaim the goods.

2. To call back from error, wandering or transgression, to the observance of moral rectitude; to reform; to bring back to correct deportment or course of life.

It is the intention of Providence in its various expressions of goodness, to reclaim mankind.

3. To reduce to the state desired.

Much labor is requir'd in trees, to tame their wild disorder, and in ranks reclaim

4. To call back; to restrain.

Or is her tow'ring flight reclaim'd by seas from Icarus' downfall nam'd?

5. To recall; to cry out against.

The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. [Unusual.]

6. To reduce from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to tame; to make gentle; as, to reclaim a hawk, an eagle or a wild beast.

7. To demand or challenge; to make a claim; a French use.

8. To recover.

9. In ancient customs, to pursue and recall, as a vassal.

10. To encroach on what has been taken from one; to attempt to recover possession.

A tract of land [Holland snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy.

RECLA'IM, verb intransitive To cry out; to exclaim.

Reclaimable

RECLA'IMABLE, adjective That may be reclaimed, reformed or tamed.

Reclaimant

RECLA'IMANT, noun One that opposes, contradicts or remonstrates against.

Reclaimed

RECLA'IMED, participle passive Recalled from a vicious life; reformed; tamed; domesticated; recovered.

Reclaiming

RECLA'IMING, participle present tense Recalling to a regular course of life; reforming; recovering; taking; demanding.

Reclamation

RECLAMA'TION, noun

1. Recovery.

2. Demand; challenge of something to be restored; claim made.

Reclinate

REC'LINATE, adjective [Latin reclinatus. See recline.]

In botany, reclined, as a leaf; bend downwards, so that the point of the leaf is lower than the base.

A reclinate stem is one that bends in an arch towards the earth.

Reclination

RECLINA'TION, noun That act of leaning or reclining.

Recline

RECLI'NE, verb transitive [Latin reclino; re and clino, to lean.]

To lean back; to lean to one side or sideways; as, to recline the head on a pillow, or on the bosom of another, or on the arm.

The mother reclin'd her dying head upon his breast.

RECLI'NE, verb intransitive To lean; to rest or repose; as, to recline on a couch.

RECLI'NE, adjective [Latin reclinis.] Leaning; being in a leaning posture.

They sat recline on the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers. [Little used.]

Reclined

RECLI'NED, participle passive Inclined back or sideways.

Reclining

RECLI'NING, participle present tense Leaning back or sideways; resting; lying.

Reclose

RECLO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [re and close.] To close or shut again.

Reclosed

RECLO'SED, participle passive Closed again.

Reclosing

RECLO'SING, participle present tense Closing again.

Reclude

RECLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin recludo; re and claudo, cludo.] To open. [Little used.]

Recluse

RECLU'SE, adjective

Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.

RECLU'SE, noun

1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.

2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.

Reclusely

RECLU'SELY, adverb In retirement or seclusion from society.

Recluseness

RECLU'SENESS, noun Retirement; seclusion from society.

Reclusion

RECLU'SION, noun s as z. A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Reclusive

RECLU'SIVE, adjective Affording retirement from society.

Recoagulation

RECOAGULA'TION, noun [re and coagulation.] A second coagulation.

Recoct

RECOCT', adjective [Latin recoctus, recoquo.] New vamped. [Not used.]

Recognition

RECOGNITION, noun reconish'on or recognish'on. [Latin recognitio.]

1. Acknowledgment; formal avowal; as the recognition of a final concord on a writ of covenant.

2. Acknowledgment; memorial.

3. Acknowledgment; solemn avowal by which a thing is owned or declared to belong to, or by which the remembrance of it is revived.

The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.

4. Knowledge confessed or avowed; as the recognition of a thing present; memory of it as passed.

Recognitor

RECOGNITOR, noun recon'itor. One of a jury upon assize.

Recognizable

RECOGNIZABLE, adjective recon'izable. [from recognize.] That may be recognized or acknowledged.

Recognizance

RECOGNIZANCE, noun recon'izance.

1. Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; as the recognizance of christians, by which they avow their belief in their religion.

2. In law, an obligation of record which a man enters into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the assizes, to keep the peace or pay a debt. This recognizance differs from a bond, as it does not create a new debt, but it is the acknowledgment of a former debt or record. This is witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. There is also a recognizance in the nature of a statute staple, acknowledged before either of the chief justices or their substitutes, the mayor of the staple at Westminster and the recorder of London, which is to be enrolled and certified into chancery.

3. The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.

Recognize

RECOGNIZE, verb transitive rec'onize. [Latin recognosco; re and cognosco, to know. The g in these words has properly no sound in English.]

1. To recollect or recover the knowledge of, either with an avowal of that knowledge or not. We recognize a person at a distance, when we recollect that we have seen him before, or that we have formerly known him. We recognize his features or his voice.

Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen.

2. To review; to re-examine.

REC'OGNIZE, verb intransitive To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal. A B recognized in the sum of twenty pounds.

Recognized

REC'OGNIZED, participle passive Acknowledged; recollected as known; bound by recognizance.

Recognizee

RECOGNIZEE, noun reconizee'. The person to whom a recognizance is made.

Recognizing

REC'OGNIZING, participle present tense Acknowledging; recollecting as known; entering a recognizance.

Recognizor

RECOGNIZOR, noun reconizor'. One who enters into a recognizance.

Recoil

RECOIL', verb intransitive

1. To move or start back; to roll back; as, a cannon recoils when fired; waves recoil from the shore.

2. To fall back; to retire.

3. To rebound; as, the blow recoils.

4. To retire; to flow back; as, the blood recoils with horror at the sight.

5. To start back; to shrink. Nature recoils at the bloody deed.

6. To return. The evil will recoil upon his own head.

RECOIL', verb transitive To drive back. [Not used.]

RECOIL', noun A starting or falling back; as the recoil of fire-arms; the recoil of nature of the blood.

Recoiling

RECOIL'ING, participle present tense Starting or falling back; retiring; shrinking.

RECOIL'ING, noun The act of starting or falling back; a shrinking; revolt.

Recoilingly

RECOIL'INGLY, adverb With starting back or retrocession.

Recoin

RECOIN', verb transitive [re and coin.] To coin again; as, to recoin gold or silver.

Recoinage

RECOIN'AGE, noun

1. The act of coining anew.

2. That which is coined anew.

Recoined

RECOIN'ED, participle passive Coined again.

Recoining

RECOIN'ING, participle present tense Coining anew.

Recollect

RECOLLECT', verb transitive [re and collect; Latin recolligo, recollectus.]

1. To collect again; applied to ideas that have escaped from the memory; to recover or call back ideas to the memory. I recollect what was said at a former interview; or I cannot recollect what was said.

2. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory. I met a man whom I thought I had seen before, but I could not recollect his name or the place where I had seen him. I do not recollect you, sir.

3. To recover resolution or composure of mind.

The Tyrian queen admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man, then recollected stood.

[In this sense, collected is more generally used.]

Recollected

RECOLLECT'ED, participle passive Recalled to the memory.

Recollecting

RECOLLECT'ING, participle present tense Recovering to the memory.

Recollection

RECOLLEC'TION, noun

1. The act of recalling to the memory, as ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas that have escaped; or the operation by which ideas are recalled to the memory or revived in the mind. recollection differs from remembrance, as it is the consequence of volition, or an effort of the mind to revive ideas; whereas remembrance implies no such volition. We often remember things without any voluntary effort. recollection is called also reminiscence.

2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance. The events mentioned are not within my recollection

3. In popular language, recollection is used as synonymous with remembrance.

Recollective

RECOLLECT'IVE, adjective Having the power of recollecting.

Recollet

REC'OLLET, noun A monk of a reformed order of Franciscans.

Recombination

RECOMBINA'TION, noun Combination a second time.

Recombine

RECOMBI'NE, verb transitive [re and combine.] To combine again.

If we recombine these two elastic fluids.

Recombined

RECOMBI'NED, participle passive Combined anew.

Recombining

RECOMBI'NING, participle present tense Combining again.

Recomfort

RECOMFORT, verb transitive [re and comfort.]

1. To comfort again; to console anew.

2. To give new strength.

Recomforted

RECOMFORTED, participle passive Comforted again.

Recomforting

RECOMFORTING, participle present tense Comforting again.

Recomfortless

RECOMFORTLESS, adjective Without comfort. [Not used.]

Recommence

RECOMMENCE, verb transitive recommens'. [re and commence.] To commence again; to begin anew.

Recommenced

RECOMMEN'CED, participle passive Commenced anew.

Recommencing

RECOMMEN'CING, participle present tense Beginning again.

Recommend

RECOMMEND', verb transitive [re and commend.]

1. To praise to another; to offer or commend to another's notice, confidence or kindness by favorable representations.

Maecenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus.

[In this sense, commend, though less common, is the preferable word.]

2. To make acceptable.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends, succeeds, and ev'n a stranger recommends.

3. To commit with prayers.

Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God. Acts 15:40.

[Commend here is much to be preferred.]

Recommendable

RECOMMEND'ABLE, adjective That may be recommended; worthy of recommendation or praise.

Recommendation

RECOMMENDA'TION, noun

1. The act of recommending or of commending; the act of representing in a favorable manner for the purpose of procuring the notice, confidence or civilities of another. We introduce a friend to a stranger by a recommendation of his virtues or accomplishments.

2. That which procures a kind or favorable reception. The best recommendation of a man to favor is politeness. Misfortune is a recommendation to our pity.

Recommendatory

RECOMMEND'ATORY, adjective That commends to another; that recommends.

Recommended

RECOMMEND'ED, participle passive Praised; commended to another.

Recommender

RECOMMEND'ER, noun One who commends.

Recommending

RECOMMEND'ING, participle present tense Praising to another; commending.

Recommission

RECOMMIS'SION, verb transitive [re and commission.] To commission again.

Officers whose time of service had expired, were to be recommissioned.

Recommissioned

RECOMMIS'SIONED, participle passive Commissioned again.

Recommissioning

RECOMMIS'SIONING, participle present tense Commissioning again.

Recommit

RECOMMIT', verb transitive [re and commit.]

1. To commit again; as, to recommit persons to prison.

2. To refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Recommitment

RECOMMIT'MENT, noun A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Recommitted

RECOMMIT'TED, participle passive Committed anew; referred again.

Recommitting

RECOMMIT'TING, participle present tense Committing again; referring again to a committee.

Recommunicate

RECOMMU'NICATE, verb intransitive [re and communicate.] To communicate again.

Recompact

RECOMPACT', verb transitive [re and compact.] To join anew.

Repair and recompact my scatter'd body.

Recompensation

RECOMPENSA'TION, noun Recompense. [Not used.]

Recompense

REC'OMPENSE, verb transitive

1. To compensate; to make return of an equivalent for any thing given, done or suffered; as, to recompense a person for services, for fidelity or for sacrifices of time, for loss or damages.

The word is followed by the person or the service. We recompense a person for his services, or we recompense his kindness. It is usually found more easy to neglect than to recompense a favor.

2. To require; to repay; to return an equivalent; in a bad sense.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Romans 12:17.

3. To make an equivalent return in profit or produce. The labor of man is recompensed by the fruits of the earth.

4. To compensate; to make amends by any thing equivalent.

Solyman - said he would find occasion for them to recompense that disgrace.

5. To make restitution or an equivalent return for. Numbers 5:7.

REC'OMPENSE, noun

1. An equivalent returned for any thing given, done or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; as a recompense for services, for damages, for loss, etc.

2. Requital; return of evil or suffering or other equivalent; as a punishment.

To me belongeth vengeance and recompense Deuteronomy 32:35.

And every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. Hebrews 2:2.

Recompensed

REC'OMPENSED, participle passive Rewarded; requited.

Recompensing

REC'OMPENSING, participle present tense Rewarding; compensating; requiting.

Recompilement

RECOMPI'LEMENT, noun [re and compilement.] New compilation or digest; as a recompilement of laws.

Recompose

RECOMPO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [re and compose.]

1. To quiet anew; to compose or tranquilize that which is ruffled or disturbed; as, to recompose the mind.

2. To compose anew; to form or adjust again.

We produced a lovely purple which we can destroy or recompose at pleasure.

Recomposed

RECOMPO'SED, participle passive Quieted again after agitation; formed anew; composed a second time.

Recomposing

RECOMPO'SING, participle present tense Rendering tranquil after agitation; forming or adjusting anew.

Recomposition

RECOMPOSI'TION, noun Composition renewed.

Reconcilable

RECONCI'LABLE, adjective

1. Capable of being reconciled; capable of renewed friendship. The parties are not reconcilable

2. That may be made to agree to be consistent; consistent.

The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable

3. Capable of being adjusted; as, the difference between the parties is reconcilable

Reconcilableness

RECONCI'LABLENESS, noun

1. The quality of being reconcilable; consistency; as the reconcilableness of parts of Scripture which apparently disagree.

2. Possibility of being restored to friendship and harmony.

Reconcile

RECONCI'LE, verb transitive [Latin reconcilio; re and concilio; con and calo, to call, Gr. The literal sense is to call back into union.]

1. To conciliate anew; to call back into union and friendship the affections which have been alienated; to restore to friendship or favor after estrangement; as, to reconcile men or parties that have been at variance.

Go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother - Matthew 5:24.

We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:18. Ephesians 2:16. Colossians 1:20.

2. To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one's self to afflictions. It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.

3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to.

The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.

Some figures monstrous and misshap'd appear, considered singly, or beheld too near; which but proportion'd to their light and place, due distance reconciles to form and grace.

4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.

Reconciled

RECONCI'LED, participle passive Brought into friendship from a state of disagreement or enmity; made consistent; adjusted.

Reconcilement

RECONCI'LEMENT, noun

1. Reconciliation; renewal of friendship. Animosities sometimes make reconcilement impracticable.

2. Friendship renewed.

No cloud of anger shall remain, but peace assured and reconcilement

Reconciler

RECONCI'LER, noun

1. One who reconciles; one who brings parties at variance into renewed friendship.

2. One who discovers the consistence of proposition.

Reconciliation

RECONCILIA'TION, noun [Latin reconciliatio.]

1. The act of reconciling parties at variance; renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity.

Reconciliation and friendship with God, really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment.

2. In Scripture, the means by which sinners are reconciled and brought into a state of favor with God, after natural estrangement or enmity; the atonement; expiation.

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity. Daniel 9:24. Hebrews 2:17.

3. Agreement of things seemingly opposite, different or inconsistent.

Reconciliatory

RECONCIL'IATORY, adjective Able or tending to reconcile.

Reconciling

RECONCI'LING, participle present tense Bringing into favor and friendship after variance; bringing to content or satisfaction; showing to be consistent; adjusting; making to agree.

Recondensation

RECONDENSA'TION, noun The act of recondensing.

Recondense

RECONDENSE, verb transitive recondens'. [re and condense.] To condense again.

Recondensed

RECONDENS'ED, participle passive Condensed anew.

Recondensing

RECONDENS'ING, participle present tense Condensing again.

Recondite

REC'ONDITE, adjective [Latin reconditus, recondo; re and condo to conceal.]

1. Secret; hidden from the view or intellect; abstruse; as recondite causes of things.

2. Profound; dealing in things abstruse; as recondite studies.

Reconditory

RECOND'ITORY, noun [supra.] A repository; a store-house or magazine. [Little used.]

Reconduct

RECONDUCT', verb intransitive [re and conduct.] To conduct back or again.

Reconducted

RECONDUCT'ED, participle passive Conducted back or again.

Reconducting

RECONDUCT'ING, participle present tense Conducting back or again.

Reconfirm

RECONFIRM', verb transitive [re and confirm.] To confirm anew.

Reconjoin

RECONJOIN', verb transitive [re and conjoin.] To join or conjoin anew.

Reconjoined

RECONJOIN'ED, participle passive Joined again.

Reconjoining

RECONJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining anew.

Reconnoiter

RECONNOIT'ER, verb transitive

To view; to survey; to examine by the eye; particularly in military affairs, to examine the state of an enemy's army or camp, or the ground for military operations.

Reconnoitered

RECONNOIT'ERED, participle passive Viewed; examined by personal observation.

Reconnoitering

RECONNOIT'ERING, participle present tense Viewing; examining by personal observation.

Reconquer

RECONQUER, verb transitive recon'ker. [re and conquer.]

1. To conquer again; to recover by conquest.

2. To recover; to regain.

Reconquered

RECON'QUERED, participle passive Conquered again; regained.

Reconquering

RECON'QUERING, participle present tense Conquering again; recovering.

Reconsecrate

RECON'SECRATE, verb transitive [re and consecrate.] To consecrate anew.

Reconsecrated

RECONSECRATED, participle passive Consecrated again.

Reconsecrating

RECON'SECRATING, participle present tense Consecrating again.

Reconsecration

RECONSECRA'TION, noun A renewed consecration.

Reconsider

RECONSID'ER, verb transitive [re and consider.]

1. To consider again; to turn in the mind again; to review.

2. To annul; to take into consideration a second time and rescind; as, to reconsider a motion in a legislative body; to reconsider a vote. The vote has been reconsidered, that is, rescinded.

Reconsideration

RECONSIDERA'TION, noun

1. A renewed consideration or review in the mind.

2. A second consideration; annulment; recision.

Reconsidered

RECONSID'ERED, participle passive Considered again; rescinded.

Reconsidering

RECONSID'ERING, participle present tense Considering again; rescinding.

Reconsolate

RECON'SOLATE, verb transitive To console or comfort again. [Not in use.]

Reconvene

RECONVE'NE, verb transitive [re and convene.] To convene or call together again.

RECONVE'NE, verb intransitive To assemble or come together again.

Reconvened

RECONVE'NED, participle passive Assembled anew.

Reconvening

RECONVE'NING, participle present tense Assembling anew.

Reconversion

RECONVER'SION, noun [re and conversion.] A second conversion.

Reconvert

RECONVERT', verb transitive [re and convert.] To convert again.

Reconverted

RECONVERT'ED, participle passive Converted again.

Reconverting

RECONVERT'ING, participle present tense Converting again.

Reconvey

RECONVEY, verb transitive [re and convey.]

1. To convey back or to its former place; as, to reconvey goods.

2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.

Reconveyed

RECONVEYED, participle passive Conveyed back; transferred to a former owner.

Reconveying

RECONVEYING, participle present tense Conveying back; transferring to a former owner.

Record

RECORD', verb transitive [Latin recorder, to call to mind, to remember, from re and cor, cordis, the heart or mind.]

1. To register; to enroll; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic or correct evidence of a thing; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record a deed or lease; to record historical events.

2. To imprint deeply on the mind or memory; as, to record the sayings of another in the heart.

3. To cause to be remembered.

So ev'n and morn recorded the third day.

4. To recite; to repeat. [Not in use.]

5. To call to mind. [Not in use.]

RECORD', verb intransitive To sing or repeat a tune. [Not in use.]

REC'ORD, noun

1. A register; an authentic or official copy of any writing, or account of any facts and proceedings, entered in a book for preservation; or the book containing such copy or account; as the records of statutes or of judicial courts; the records of a town or parish. Records are properly the registers of official transactions, made by officers appointed for the purpose, or by the officer whose proceedings are directed by law to be recorded.

2. Authentic memorial; as the records of past ages.

Court of record is a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial; and their records are the highest evidence of facts, and their truth cannot be called in question.

Debt of record is a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record as upon a judgment or a recognizance.

Trial by record is where a matter of record is pleaded and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record In this case, the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible.

Recordation

RECORDA'TION, noun [Latin recordatio.] Remembrance. [Not in use.]

Recorded

RECORD'ED, participle passive Registered; officially entered in a book or on parchment; imprinted on the memory.

Recorder

RECORD'ER, noun

1. A person whose official duty is to register writings or transactions; one who enrolls or records.

2. An officer of a city who is keeper of the rolls or records, or who is invested with judicial powers.

3. Formerly, a kind of flute, flageolet or wind instrument.

The figures of recorders, flutes and pipes are straight; but the recorder hath a less bore and a greater above and below.

Recording

RECORD'ING, participle present tense Registering; enrolling; imprinting on the memory.

Recouch

RECOUCH', verb intransitive [re and couch.] To retire again to a lodge, as lions.

Recount

RECOUNT', verb transitive [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.

Recounted

RECOUNT'ED, participle passive Related or told in detail; recited.

Recounting

RECOUNT'ING, participle present tense Relating in a series; narrating.

Recountment

RECOUNT'MENT, noun Relation in detail; recital. [Little used.]

Recoured

RECOURED, for recovered or recured. [Not used.]

Recourse

RECOURSE, noun [Latin recursus; re and cursus, curro, to run.] Literally, a running back; a return.

1. Return; a new attack. [Not in use.]

2. A going to with a request or application, as for aid or protection. Children have recourse to their parents for assistance.

3. Application of efforts, art or labor. The general had recourse to stratagem to effect his purpose.

Our last recourse is therefore to our art.

4. Access. [Little used.]

5. Frequent passage.

RECOURSE, verb intransitive To return. [Not used.]

Recourseful

RECOURSEFUL, adjective Moving alternately. [Not in use.]

Recover

RECOVER, verb transitive [Latin recupero; re and capio, to take.]

1. 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 Samuel 30:8.

2. To restore from sickness; as, to recover one from leprosy. 2 Kings 5:3.

3. To revive from apparent death; as, to recover a drowned man.

4. To regain 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

5. To regain a former state by liberation from capture or possession.

That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. 2 Timothy 2:26.

6. 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.

7. To reach; to come to.

The forest is not three leagues off; if we recover that, we're sure enough.

8. To obtain title to by judgment in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery.

RECOVER, verb intransitive

1. To regain health after sickness; to grow well; followed by of or from.

Go, inquire of Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease. 2 Kings 1:2.

2. To regain a former state or condition after misfortune; as, to recover from a state of poverty or depression.

3. To obtain a judgment in law; to succeed in a lawsuit. The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

Recoverable

RECOVERABLE, adjective

1. That may be regained or recovered. Goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable

2. That may be restored from sickness.

3. That may be brought back to a former condition.

A prodigal course is like the sun's, but not like his recoverable

4. That may be obtained from a debtor or possessor. The debt is recoverable

Recovered

RECOVERED, participle passive Regained; restored obtained by judicial decision.

Recoveree

RECOVEREE', noun In law, the tenant or person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.

Recovering

RECOVERING, participle present tense Regaining; obtaining in return or by judgment in law; regaining health.

Recoveror

RECOVEROR, noun In law, the demandant or person who obtains a judgment in his favor in common recovery.

Recovery

RECOVERY, noun

1. The act of regaining, retaking or obtaining possession of anything 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.

2. 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.

3. The capacity of being restored to health. The patient is past recovery

4. 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 plaintiff; 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 recoveror.

Recreant

REC'REANT, adjective [See Craven.]

1. Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; hence, cowardly; mean spirited.

2. Apostate; false.

Who for so many benefits receiv'd, turn'd recreant to God, ingrate and false.

REC'REANT, noun One who yields in combat and cries craven; one who begs for mercy; hence, a mean spirited, cowardly wretch.

Recreate

REC'REATE, verb transitive [Latin recero; re and creo, to create.]

1. 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.

St. John is said to have recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge.

2. To gratify; to delight.

These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.

3. To relieve; to revive; as, to recreate the lungs with fresh air.

REC'REATE, verb intransitive To take recreation.

Recreated

REC'REATED, participle passive Refreshed; diverted; amused; gratified.

Recreating

REC'REATING, participle present tense Refreshing after toil; reanimating the spirits or strength; diverting; amusing.

Recreation

RECREA'TION, noun

1. Refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion.

2. Relief from toil or pain; amusement in sorrow or distress.

Recreative

REC'REATIVE, adjective Refreshing; giving new vigor or animation; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting. Choose such sports as are recreative and healthful.

Let the music be recreative

Recreatively

REC'REATIVELY, adverb With recreation or diversion.

Recreativeness

REC'REATIVENESS, noun The quality of being refreshing or diverting.

Recrement

REC'REMENT, noun [Latin recrementum; probably re and cerno, to secrete.]

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; spume; as the recrement of ore or of the blood.

Recremental

RECREMENT'AL,

RECREMENTI'TIAL,

RECREMENTI'TIOUS, adjective Drossy; consisting of superfluous matter separated from that which is valuable.

Recrementitial

RECREMENTI'TIAL,

Recrementitious

RECREMENTI'TIOUS, a. Drossy; consisting of superfluous matter separated from that which is valuable.

Recriminate

RECRIM'INATE, verb intransitive [Latin re and criminor, to accuse.]

1. To return one accusation with another.

It is not my business to recriminate

2. To charge an accuser with the like crime.

RECRIM'INATE, verb transitive To accuse in return.

Recriminating

RECRIM'INATING, participle present tense Returning one accusation with another.

Recrimination

RECRIMINA'TION, noun

1. The return of one accusation with another.

2. In law, an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser upon the same fact.

Recriminator

RECRIM'INATOR, noun He that accuses the accuser of a like crime.

Recriminatory

RECRIM'INATORY, adjective Retorting accusation.

Recross

RECROSS', verb transitive To cross a second time.

Recrossed

RECROSS'ED, participle passive Crossed a second time.

Recrossing

RECROSS'ING, participle present tense Crossing a second time.

Recrudescence

RECRUDES'CENCE,

RECRUDES'CENCY, noun [from Latin recrudescens; re and crudesco, to grow raw; crudus, raw.]

The state of becoming sore again.

Recrudescency

RECRUDES'CENCY, n. [from L. recrudescens; re and crudesco, to grow raw; crudus, raw.] The state of becoming sore again.

Recrudescent

RECRUDES'CENT, adjective Growing raw, sore or painful again.

Recruit

RECRUIT, verb transitive [Latin cresco.]

1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

Her cheeks glow the bright, recruiting their color.

2. To supply with new men any deficiency of troops; as, to recruit an army.

RECRUIT, verb intransitive

1. To gain new supplies of any thing wasted; to gain flesh, health, spirits, etc.; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

2. To gain new supplies of men; to raise new soldiers.

RECRUIT, noun The supply of any thing wasted; chiefly, a new raised soldier to supply the deficiency of an army.

Recruited

RECRUITED, participle passive Furnished with new supplies of what is wasted.

Recruiting

RECRUITING, participle present tense Furnishing with fresh supplies; raising new soldiers for an army.

RECRUITING, noun The business of raising new soldiers to supply the loss of men in an army.

Recruitment

RECRUITMENT, noun The act or business of raising new supplies of men for an army.

Recrystalize

RECRYS'TALIZE, verb intransitive To crystalize a second time.

Rectangle

RECT'ANGLE, noun [Latin rectangulus; rectus, right, and angulus, angle.]

1. A right angled parallelogram.

2. In arithmetic, the product of two lines multiplied into each other.

Rectangled

RECT'ANGLED, adjective Having right angles, or angles of ninety degrees.

Rectangular

RECTAN'GULAR, adjective Right angled; having angles of ninety degrees.

Rectangularly

RECTAN'GULARLY, adverb with or at right angles.

Rectifiable

RECTIFIABLE, adjective [from rectify.] that may be rectified; capable of being corrected or set right; as a rectifiable mistake.

Rectification

RECTIFICA'TION, noun

1. The act or operation of correcting, amending or setting right that which is wrong or erroneous; as the retification of errors, mistakes or abuses.

2. In chimistry, the process of refining or purifying any substance by repeated distiliation, which separates the grosser parts; as the rectification of spirits or sulphuric acid.

Rectified

REC'TIFIED, participle passive Corrected; set or made right; refined by repeated distiliation or sublimation.

Rectifier

REC'TIFIER, noun

1. One that corrects or amends.

2. One who refines a substance by repeated distiliation.

3. An instrument that shows the variations of the compass, and rectifies the course of a ship.

Rectify

REC'TIFY, verb transitive [Latin rectus, right, and facio, to make.]

1. To make right; to correct that which is wrong, erroneous or false; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

2. In chimistry, to refine by repeated distiliation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit or wine.

3. To rectify the globe, is to bring the sun's place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian.

Rectifying

REC'TIFYING, participle present tense Correcting; amending; refining by repeated distiliation or sublimation.

Rectilineal

RECTILIN'EAL,

RECTILIN'EAR, adjective [Latin rectus, right, and linea, line.]

Right lined; consisting of a right line or of right lines; straight; as a rectilinear figure or course; a rectilinear side or way.

Rectilinear

RECTILIN'EAR, a. [L. rectus, right, and linea, line.] Right lined; consisting of a right line or of right lines; straight; as a rectilinear figure or course; a rectilinear side or way.

Rectilineous

RECTILIN'EOUS, adjective Rectilinear. obsolete

Rectitude

REC'TITUDE, noun [Latin rectus, right, straight.]

In morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws. rectitude of mind is the disposition to act in conformity to any known standard of right, truth or justice; rectitude of conduct is the actual conformity to such standard. Perfect rectitude belongs only to the Supreme Being. The more nearly the rectitude of men approaches to the standard of the divine law, the more exalted and dignified is their character. Want of rectitude is not only sinful, but debasing.

There is a sublimity in conscious rectitude - in comparison with which the treasures of earth are not worth naming.