recuperatorn.

1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iii. iii. 290 Iudges appointed..for the bare examination of the fact, who are properly called Recuperatores (or as we terme them Delegates).]

1654 C. Barksdale tr. H. Grotius Of Law of Warre & Peace i. lvi. 27 The King..is also bound to endeavour that dammages may be repaired: which at Rome was the Office of the Recuperators.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Recuperator, (among the Romans) a Commissioner or Judge appointed by the Prætor to examine private Matters; a Judge Delegate.

1736 Let. 17 Jan. in S. Keimer Caribbeana (1741) II. 115 A Manumission, and that before a Council, which in Rome was to consist of five Senators and five Knights; and in the Provinces, of twenty Recuperators.

1845 Southern Q. Rev. July 103 Recuperators,—men who first judged between the Romans and foreign States, concerning the recovery and restoration of private property.

1871 E. Poste in tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis i. Comm. 37 Recuperators are judges not taken from the panel.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 7 The council consists in Rome of five senators and five Roman knights of the age of puberty; in the provinces of twenty recuperators, Roman citizens.

1935 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 29 246 The institution of ‘recuperators’ was established, to examine the disputes in which foreigners were involved.

2001 D. J. Bederman Internat. Law in Antiq. iv. 135 It is possible that all of the recuperators for the case were Roman senators.

1862 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 50 318/1 How..is that portion of the public ‘given up by family physicians’ to be ‘restored to its normal condition’ in the absence of patent regulators, invigorators, recuperators and what not?

1905 Smart Set 17 Sept. 24 a/2 (advt.) A day trip on these steamers is calculated to brace the entire system, and the jaded business man will find them a splendid recuperator.

1948 Arlington Heights (Illinois) Herald 26 Nov. 7/5 Everyone had a grand time doing the square dances and learning the polkas as a recuperator from the gay and vigorous swings and twirls.

1993 D. Trotter Eng. Novel in Hist. ii. xi. 179 Richard Hannay certainly finds spying a fine recuperator.

1864 T. Schwartz U.S. Patent 45,526 4/2 At either end of the working-cylinder A there is an extension-vessel of almost equal size..constituting what I term the ‘recuperator’, the tubes of the lower recuperator, L, being so disposed as to have a stream of cold water constantly circulating around them..and those of the upper recuperator, J, to be similarly maintained at the working-temperature of the air through hot liquid from the generator.

1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 33 398 The action of the heat recuperator in the regenerative gas furnace.

1906 A. L. J. Queneau tr. E. Damour Industr. Furnaces ii. 47 Two systems are still in practice—the Siemens recuperator with inversion, and recuperation without inversion, by parallel counter currents.

1962 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel IV. ii. 39 In the recuperative type of soaking pit, the flow of fuel and air is maintained in one direction... These recuperators may either be of the refractory or metallic type.

2004 A. Moisseytsev & D. T. Matonis in Nucl. Production Hydrogen: Second Information Exchange Meeting (O.E.C.D. Nucl. Energy Agency) 279 The CO₂ is cooled down to almost the critical pressure and temperature. This heats the seawater at compressor #1... From there, the flow returns to the low-temperature recuperator.

1889 U.S. Patent 410,968 2/1 It..will act as a recuperator for effecting the running out or return of the gun to the firing position.

1925 Jrnl. Royal Artillery 52 38 By the end of 1918 all springs had been replaced by air recuperators.

2003 H. Peter Armament Engin. 189 The recoil and recuperator piston rods or the recoil brake and recuperator cylinders are anchored to the cradle.