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recourse
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Word definitions for recourse in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recourse \Re*course"\, v. i. To return; to recur. [Obs.] The flame departing and recoursing. --Foxe. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of seeking assistance or advice. 2 (context obsolete English) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence. 3 (context obsolete English) Access; admittance. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To return; to recur. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French recours (13c.), from Latin recursus "a return, a retreat," literally "a running back, a going back," from stem of past participle of recurrere "run back, return" (see recur ).
Usage examples of recourse.
Therefore, before they would have recourse to extremities, they thought it advisable to consult the senate a second time.
On subsequent inquiries, through a circuitous channel, unnecessary to be detailed here at length, on the part of the manufacturer of the cheese, it was found, that as the supplies of anotta had been defective and of inferior quality, recourse had been had to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.
Miss Margland was preparing him a reproachful reception, but was so much offended by the fishy smell which he brought into the room, that she had immediate recourse to her salts, and besought him to stand out of her way.
Some use a burin to cut straight into the copper, to engrave a line without recourse to acid.
The price of provisions, and bread in particular, being raised to an exorbitant rate in consequence of an absurd exportation of corn, for the sake of the bounty, a formidable body of colliers, and other labouring people, raised an insurrection at Bristol, began to plunder the corn vessels in the harbour, and commit such outrages in the city, that the magistrates were obliged to have recourse to military power.
Having failed by other meansand you have had recourse to manyto extinguish a life that stands between you and your succession to the marquisate of Chavaray, you contrive this comedy of a court martial and employ these poor deluded dupes of yours to do your murder for you.
Conversely, the State may revoke an improvident grant of the public petitionary without recourse to the power of eminent domain, such a grant being inherently beyond the power of the State to make.
Thus Sith appeared to have but one recourse: to repair or reinstruct the synthesizer as quickly as possible, and fleeing Thone and Ggyddn both leave the Earth to its fate.
Sith appeared to have but one recourse: to repair or reinstruct the synthesizer as quickly as possible, and fleeing Thone and Ggyddn both leave the Earth to its fate.
In this perplexity he had recourse to his usual expedient, of submitting to the wisdom of Trajan an impartial, and, in some respects, a favorable account of the new superstition, requesting the emperor, that he would condescend to resolve his doubts, and to instruct his ignorance.
Religion as merely revelation and in its endeavour to find a rational basis for faith set God apart from His world, detached, unheeding and offering no real recourse to a travailing humanity between whom and Himself it built a rigid fabric of impersonal law.
Strode Venturer could not make Aden without recourse to Admiralty bunkering facilities.
Taking into account that Colton Wyndham was no addlebrained nitwit, Adriana had no recourse but to believe he had deliberately dismissed her earlier suggestion.
When experiments on animals seemed to him absolutely indispensable, he had recourse to them, but always with repugnance, and with desire to avoid giving of pain.
He would be stricken from the Cheng records, disowned by his father and relatives, and cast aside without family connections or recourse.