1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie sig. C8 ^v The chynne recuruate, wyth a vale or hollowe, in the ioyninge..of the Jawes,..declareth that man to be most wycked or vngracious.

1675 J. Wallis Disc. Gravity & Gravitation 29 If the Nose or Pipe..be recurvate..and turned down to O; that which would have run over at B, will now run out at O.

1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 382 Recurvatum, recurvate, bent backwards in the Form of an Arch, the convex Side upwards.

1812 J. Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. III. 221 Spur of the uppermost petals recurvate.

1869 P. Gillmore tr. G. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds Introd. 185 By the anterior series of one barb over-lapping and hooking into the recurvate formation of the barb next to it.

1917 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 43 473 The apical half of the ninth segment, yellow; on the dorsum its posterior border recurvate.

1947 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 34 261/2 The leaflets..are rigidly horizontal..with strongly recurvate margins.

1986 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 13 15 Most of the ceramic vessels at the Weicker site were ollas with recurvate rims.

2001 Novon 11 50 Leaves linear, recurvate.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Thesaurarye sig. aiij^v/2 He [sc. the end of a bullet-drawer] is also hoockishe, & recurvated [Fr. retourné, Du. gedraeyt].

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. f. 34^v/2 Which foresayed needle..we must thrust into the Orificium of the Fistle untill we sensibly feel the same on our finger, and then with our finger recurvate, the end of the foresayed needle.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus viii. 74 The Nails of those, whose Lungs are Ulcerated, are recurvated or turn'd back like the claws of wild beasts.

1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 482 I had a View of the Ibex or Steinbock, whose large Horns are recurvated almost as far back as the Tail.

1772 D. MacBride Methodical Introd. Theory & Pract. Physic ii. v. i. 547 The spine is strongly recurvated, and forms a hollow arch with the bed.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 332 The spine is more strongly recurvated than ever, and forms an arch over the bed.

1859 Math. Monthly 2 96 The cyclone at first moves in a direction only a little north or south of the equator, according to the hemisphere, when its route is gradually recurvated towards the east, having its vertex in the latitude of the tropical calm belt.

1882 S. D. Gross Syst. Surg. (ed. 6) I. viii. 889 The tongue was pushed..backwards into the pharynx, while the epiglottis was recurvated upon the superior aperture of the larynx.

1905 H. A. Hare Text-bk. Pract. Med. 853 The tail is tapered and recurvated ventrally.

1788 R. Young Ess. Powers & Mechanism Nature 298 If the issuing influence be found to recurvate backwards, towards the end, where the supply should enter, and not to proceed continually from the magnet, its return into it is put out of doubt.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) iii. §174 These gales..march to the N. West until they join it [sc. the Gulf Stream], when they ‘recurvate’, as the phrase is, and take up their line of march to the N. East.

2003 Y. Zhu Large-scale Inhomogeneous Thermodynamics xv. 326 Moist convection may develop quickly over the northern edge of the typhoon, and the storm recurvates suddenly at an increased speed towards the new energy source.

1759 J. Yeomans Abecedarian 51 I would have the long ʃ cancelled, and the recurvated or ogive s wrote always in the place of it.

1854 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Sept. 477 The progression of the gale..appears to have been greatly accelerated after it passed the axis of equal diurnal motion, on its recurvated course through the temperate and higher latitudes.

1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1427/2 O. sensibilis... Fertile fronds 2-pinnate; pinnules recurvated, globose.

2002 B. Baumgartner in J. Duparc Surg. Techniques Orthopaedics & Traumatology VI. 55-480- a-10-2 The prosthetic hip joint is displaced anteriorly; its knee is recurvated which offers full stability in the stance phase.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 601 Whenever the skin was scratched, a calcareous fluid oozed from it that soon hardened, and put forth corneous, recurvating excrescences, frequently divaricating.