What is "recurrent"

Usage examples of "recurrent".

That the actual capacity of a channel through alluvium depends upon its service during floods has been often shown, but this capacity does not include anomalous, but recurrent, floods.

Eternal as the recurrent cloud, as air Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew.

When pinched ascetic and red sensualist Alternately recurrent freeze or burn, And of its old religions it has doubts.

The old bottles carried a new wine, the wine of individual personality, and specifically, of course, that of this very special young man and what he represented, not in the timeless rounds of recurrent aeonian cycles, but in current historical time.

Do not report submaxillary enlargement in recurrent tonsilitis or carious teeth or post-cervical enlargement in pediculosis capitis, or in impetigo or eczema of the scalp.

Every one of the ceaselessly recurrent types of being manifests a creating Reason-Principle above all censure.

It appeared, according to the visiting laryngologist, that there was paresis of the vocal fold from damage to either the recurrent laryngeal nerve or from mechanical dislocation of a cricoarytenoid joint.

While Brockport has never been besieged by anything remotely resembling a crime epidemic, like so many other college towns, the only recurrent problem seems to be weekend bar brawls between drunken students and local rowdies, who are derogatorily referred to as townies by the mostly out-of-town student body.

A recurrent, almost dominant motif in comic postcards is the woman with the stuck-out behind.

The striking signs of confusional breakdown we see around us--the spreading use of drugs, the rise of mysticism, the recurrent outbreaks of vandalism and undirected violence, the politics of nihilism and nostalgia, the sick apathy of millions--can all be understood better by recognizing their relationship to future shock.

I have heard of similar recurrent effects from crotaline poisoning, but none scientifically attested, as is this phenomenon.

This system of calculating dates also expressed beliefs about the past—notably, the widely held belief that time operated in Great Cycles which witnessed recurrent creations and destructions of the world.

And what they seem to be saying to us is this: that cyclical, recurrent and near-total destructions of mankind are part and parcel of life on this planet, that such destructions have occurred many times before and that they will certainly occur again.

Gately has to check on Doony Glynn, who has recurrent diverticulitis and has to lie fetal on his bunk when he gets an attack and has to be brought Motrin and a SlimFast shake that Gately had to make with 2% milk because there was no skim left, and then Food Bank crackers and a tonic out of the basement's machine when Glynn can't drink the 2% shake, and then Log Glynn's comments and condition, neither of which are good.

This legend, one of the most recurrent in alchemistic dreams, was later used as the basis for a famous novel by Gustav Meyrink, Der Golem (1915).