Crossword clues for recurred
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recur \Re*cur"\ (r?*k?r"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Recurred (-k?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Recurring.] [L. recurrere; pref. re- re- + currere to run. See Current.]
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To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard.
--I. Watts. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
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To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the ``punctum stans'' of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.
--Locke.Recurring decimal (Math.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
Recurring series (Math.), an algebraic series in which the coefficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding coefficients and constants in one uniform manner.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: recur)
WordNet
See recur
Usage examples of "recurred".
The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they had recurred to him.
His past life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the Bishop's pardon, -- all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly to him, but with a clearness which he had never hitherto witnessed.
The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past.
Thrust them aside as she would, questions continually recurred to her as to how she would order her life now, after that.
All their former disharmony and her own jealousy recurred to her mind.
The death, sufferings, and last days of Prince Andrew had often occupied Pierre's thoughts and now recurred to him with fresh vividness.
Her husband's account of the boy's agitation while Pierre was speaking struck her forcibly, and various traits of his gentle, sensitive character recurred to her mind.
Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face, recurred so distinctly to my mind's eye, that I thought, "No.
Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.
Then the letter that Villefort had showed to him recurred to his mind, and every line gleamed forth in fiery letters on the wall like the mene tekel upharsin of Belshazzar.
He had been struck to the heart by a frightful recollection — the conversation he had heard between the doctor and Villefort the night of Madame de Saint-Meran’s death, recurred to him.
And suddenly a memory recurred to him, something he hadn't thought of in years: Craig Toomy, twelve years old, lying in bed and shivering as hot tears ran down his face.
Brian couldn't remember, but a fragment of his dream suddenly recurred, disturbing in its lack of association to anything: an ominous red sign which read SHOOTING STARS ONLY.
Now the words recurred to Laurel and rang in her head with sickening validity.