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Recensionist

One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.

Recent

Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

Recenter

To center again; to restore to the center.

Recently

Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

Receptacle

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

Receptacular

Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

Receptaculum

A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.

Receptibility

The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.

Reception

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

Receptive

Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

Recess

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Recessed

Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

Recession

The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recessional

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.

recessional

a hymn or other piece of music sung or played while a church congregation is leaving a service, or a choir is returning to the cloak room; a recessional hymn.

Recessive

A genetic trait determined by a recessive{2} allele; a trait not appearing in the phenotype unless both chromosomes of the organism have the same allele; also, an allele which is recessive{2}.

Rechabite

One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

Rechange

To change again, or change back.

Recharter

To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.

Rechase

To chase again; to chase or drive back.

Rechauff/

A dish of food that has been warmed again, hence, fig., something made up from old material; a rehash.

Recherche

Sought out with care; choice. of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.

Recidivism

The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits, esp. after conviction and punishment.

Recidivist

One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.

Recidivous

Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Recipe

A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.

Recipiangle

An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.

Reciprocal

That which is reciprocal to another thing.

Reciprocality

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.

Reciprocally

In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.

Reciprocalness

The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Reciprocate

To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.

Reciprocation

The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

Reciprocornous

Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram.

Recital

The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.

Recitation

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

Recitative

Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.

Reciter

One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.

Reck

To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

Reckless

Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.

Reckling

Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. A weak child or animal.

Reckon

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

Reckoner

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

Reckoning

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. An account of time. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.

Reclaim

The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

Reclaimant

One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.

Reclinate

Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.

Reclination

The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.

Recline

Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.

Reclined

Falling or turned downward; reclinate.

Recliner

One who, or that which, reclines.

Reclining

Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular. Recumbent.

Reclusion

A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

Reclusory

The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.

Recoct

To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.

Recoction

A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Recognition

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.

Recognitory

Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.

Recognizance

An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal. The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.

Recognize

To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.

Recognizee

The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.

Recoil

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

Recoiler

One who, or that which, recoils.

Recollect

A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Recollection

The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.

Recomfort

To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to.

Recomforture

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.

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