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recur, v.|rɪˈkɜː(r)|
Also 7 recurr(e.
[ad. L. recurr-ĕre to run back, return, have recourse, f. re- re- + currĕre to run.]
1. intr.
†a. To run or move back, recede. Obs. rare.
1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Recurre, to run backe. 1788Trifler No. 19. 254 There is a point of depression as well as of exaltation, from which human affairs when once arrived, naturally recur in a contrary progress.
b. To return into or to a place. rare.
With first quot. cf. med.L. recurrĕre to appeal at law (1369 in Du Cange, s.v. Recursus 6).
1468Paston Lett. II. 326 [To remind him] how he promisid bi his feith to my Lord t'obey his rewle and brak it,..and if ye recur in the courte he shall be undo. 1659Wood Life 24 Oct. (O.H.S.) I. 286 To which lodgings A. W. did recurr dayly, till he had satisfied himself with them [manuscripts]. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Div. xxvii, Novatian..was intent upon..showing how all recurs to one head and fountain. 1832[see recurring ppl. a. 1 b].
†c. To resort to a place. Obs. rare.
1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 22/1 All the City grew very populous, many recurring thither from all parts of Attica, for liberty and security.
2. To return, go back, in thought, memory, or discourse. Usu. const. to (a subject, time, etc.).
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 291 But [the mind] recurreth, and discourseth through the axiomes already inuented, and iudged. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. ii. §7 But first I shall recur and give a touch upon the nature of Gravity. 1780Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 260, I retain in mind, and recur, almost daily, to your requisitions of August. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. viii. 163, I know it is painful to her to recur to that terrible time. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. xxxii. (1844) II. 1 Before I give further account of this downward voyage, however, I must recur back for a few moments, to the Teton River, from whence I started. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. v. iii. (1866) 703 It is necessary to recur for a moment to the Prince of Orange.
3. To go back, resort, have recourse to a thing (rarely a person), for assistance or argument.
1529Wolsey in Burnet Hist. Ref. (1679) I. Rec. ii. xxii. 51 For if his Grace were minded,..there were no need to recurr unto the Pope's Holiness for doing thereof. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 195 Scaliger declining this reason hath recurred unto another from the difference of parts in both sexes. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xvii. §16 If to avoid Succession in eternal Existence, they recur to the Punctum Stans of the Schools. 1785Jefferson Writ. (1859) I. 485 They have no occasion to recur from his clemency to his justice. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. ii. 99 The sad expedients, to which a rude people were obliged to recur for safety. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vii. iii. (1864) IV. 117 He will recur to the Blessed Virgin to enlighten him.
b. To come back on a person.
1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 827 Recourse is the right competent to an assignee or disponee..to recur on the vender or cedent for relief.
4. Of something known, an idea, thought, etc.: To come back or return († into, in or) to one's thoughts, mind or memory.
a1704Locke (J.), The idea, I have once had, will be unchangeably the same, as long as it recurs the same in my memory. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 175 ⁋3 Sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. 1780Beckford Mem. Painters 54 The delicacy of her sensations recurred to his memory.
b. Without const.: To return to the mind.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 197 The Thought it-self will of necessity..the oftner recur. 1719Young Revenge v. ii, Heav'ns! And yet a thousand things recur that swear it. 1784Cowper Task vi. 13 Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. 1806Byron Childish Recoll. 28 Oft does my heart indulge the rising thought, Which still recurs. 1855Tennyson Will 14 Acted crime, Or seeming-genial venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still!
c. Of questions, difficulties, etc.: To come up again for consideration; to present themselves, or confront one, again.
1651W. Lyford Serm. (1654) 4 The question will still recurre, who shall judge of the right? 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vii. §22 But still, the question recurs, whether man be free? 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. vi. 202 These critical difficulties were perpetually recurring. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §36. 129 The constant..question will from time to time recur.
d. Of thoughts, statements, etc.: To occur again in the course of a book, etc.
1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 128 Some few Reflexions, which I shall touch on slightly, or omit, because they recurr hereafter. 1863Sat. Rev. 4 July 24/2 In every part of the book two thoughts are continually recurring.
5. Of events, facts, states, etc.: To occur, happen, take place, appear, again. (Common in 19th c.)
The context usually indicates repeated re-occurrence.
1673O. Walker Educ. 44 When the like occasion recurs. 1692― Grk. & Rom. Hist. 166 Ordinarily the Solemnity recurred only every 110th year. 1771T. Percival Ess. (1777) I. 157 The vomiting recurs at short intervals. 1804–6Syd. Smith Mor. Philos. (1850) 395 One regular set of volitions, constantly recurring at fixt periods. 1851J. Paget Lect. Tumours ii. 18/1 In some..the disease has appeared to recur. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 120 Good vintage years on the continent of Europe..recur every ten or eleven years.
†b. Of a malady: To return upon one. Obs.—1
1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 248 He was disabled, and for some days since his trouble was recurred upon him.
c. Math. Of a figure or figures in a decimal fraction: To return or come again (in the same order), to repeat.
1801[see recurring ppl. a. 2 a]. 1823J. Mitchell Dict. Math. & Phys. Sci. 103/1 A circulating decimal, or..such, that if continued far enough the same figures will again recur. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 532/1 Subtract the decimal figures that do not recur from the whole decimal. |