v. i.
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the “punctum stans” of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Recurring decimal (Math.),
Recurring series (Math.),
v. t. [ Cf. Recover. ]
When their powers, impaired through labor long,
With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
No medicine
Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Cure; remedy; recovery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Incapable of cure. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. recurrens, -entis, p. pr. of recurrere: cf.F. récurrent. See Recur. ]
Recurrent fever. (Med.)
Recurrent pulse (Physiol.),
Recurrent sensibility (Physiol.),
a. [ L. recursans, -antis, p. pr. of recursare to run back, v. freq. of recurrere. See Recure. ] (Her.) Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. recursio. See Recur. ] The act of recurring; return. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
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v. t. To bend or curve back; to recurve. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. recurvatus, p. p. of recurvare. See Re-, and Curvate. ] (Bot.) Recurved. [ 1913 Webster ]