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c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 253 (MED) Thei himsilf myȝten holde in mynde..tho trouthis there writen And that bi recurse to be maad of hem into the seid writing.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 265 (MED) Y cownsayle that he take recourse to the wrytenges of Alcuinus.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. f. 208^v To make her recourse to teares.

1591 R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 241 We learned..to make our recourse to God.

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood vi. ix. 151 Pedro the Cruell, made recourse with his Treasures to the English.

1659 R. Brathwait Panthalia 179 No Stranger..makes recourse to our Cell..whom by the Rules and Constitutions of our Order, we are not bound to assist.

1706 tr. F. de la Calmette Riverius Reformatus ii. 291 You may take recourse also to Milk,..for that will mitigate the Blood.

1774 ‘A. Rediviv.’ Familiar Epist. 26 Upon a breach between two old acquaintances.., it is unmanly and injudicious to take recourse for the termination of differences to letters passed between them.

1800 B. Thompson tr. G. E. Lessing Emilia Galotti i. 9 She has taken recourse to books, which, I fear, will complete her malady.

1848 W. Pole tr. E. Alban High-pressure Steam Engine 185 I have sometimes surmounted the difficulty by making a fire in the chimney, but more frequently have been obliged to take recourse to more powerful means.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 3/1 Gross inefficiency has made the..expense and uncertainty of litigation so great that people will suffer almost any bearable wrong rather than take ruinous recourse to the law.

1965 Listener 18 Nov. 795/1 As if lacking confidence in his own directorial inventiveness, Visconti takes recourse during one sequence to a modulated version of Fellini's style.

2003 Social Scientist 31 43 Without prostitutes, there was fear that the soldiers would take recourse to masturbation and homosexuality.