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rectus|ˈrɛktəs|
Pl. recti |ˈrɛktaɪ|.
[L., = straight, right.]
1. Anat.
a. The name of various muscles, esp. of the abdomen, thigh, neck, and eye, so called from the straightness of their fibres.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Rectus Femoris is a Muscel of the Leg, so named from its streight Progress and Situation. 1733G. Douglas tr. Winslow's Anat. (1756) I. 168 The lower extremity of this Muscle..ends in a thin Tendon,..and there it touches the Tendon of the other Rectus. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 274 It arises posteriorly from a tendon common to it with the internal and external recti, and proceeds horizontally towards the ball of the eye. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1851) 258 The rectus must now be divided through its middle, and the two ends turned aside, to bring clearly into view the next muscles.
attrib.1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 62 Excessive arm-jerks and knee-jerks,..rectus clonus and ankle-clonus.
b. So rectus muscle.
1801Med. Jrnl. V. 326 Dr. Hosack..maintains, that the recti muscles of the eye contribute much in lengthening or shortening the axis of vision. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1851) 218 To dissect the rectus muscle, its sheath should be opened by a vertical incision extending..to the front of the os pubis.
2. Mus. In a fugal composition, the version of a theme performed in the basic or original, as opposed to the reversed or inverted, order. rectus et inversus [L., ‘and inverted’] = recte et retro s.v. recte adv. 2.
1931D. F. Tovey Compan. to ‘Art of Fugue’ 31 The next two fugues are tours de force, being compositions that can be inverted note for note from beginning to end. For purposes of comparison Bach writes his Inversus under his Rectus. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 134/2 The Canon Cancrizans..other names for it are Canon Recte et Retro or Rectus et Inversus. 1959Listener 30 July 189/3 The English Rite puts the Gloria at the end. Rubbra starts it as an elaborate double fugue rectus et inversus. 1960Times 30 Nov. 17/3 Fugue, rectus et inversus, canon, ostinato..shall these dry bones live? Britten..uses them all. 1962Listener 27 Dec. 1109/2 The rectus versions of the ‘mirror’ fugues XII and XIII.
3. Law. Phr. rectus in curia [lit. ‘right in court’], innocent, acquitted, set right in point of law.
[a1135in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws & Inst. Eng. (1840) I. 240 Omni domino licet submonire hominem suum, ut ei sit ad rectum in curia sua.] a1577T. Smith De Republica Anglorum (1583) ii. iii. 46 Yet with a clause, modo stet rectus in curia, that is to say, that no man obiect against the offendor. 1645J. Howell Lett. iii. vii. 59 He is now come to be again rectus in curia, absolutely acquitted and restor'd to all things. a1706Evelyn Diary an. 1680 (1955) IV. 229 Saturday came other Witnesses of the Commons..who tooke off all the former days objections, & set the Kings Witnesses recti in Curia. 1816Edin. Rev. XXVII. 122 He must come rectus in curia, and swear to the falsehood of the libel. 1866J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus 310 We meet with the propitiation or atoning sacrifice, by which they become recti in curia, right in point of law. 1934E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxii. 7, I pray you place me rectus in curia in this business with the Emperor. |