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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.

Recommend

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.

Recommendable

Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.

Recommission

To commission again; to give a new commission to.

Recommit

To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Recompense

An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.

Recompensive

Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.

Recompilement

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.

Recompose

To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.

Reconcentrado

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

Reconcentration

The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Reconcilable

Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.

Reconciliation

The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.

Recondite

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

Reconnoissance Reconnaissance

The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey. An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character. An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work. An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.

Reconnoitre Reconnoiter

To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.

Reconquer

To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.

Reconsider

To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.

Reconsideration

The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.

Reconsolidation

The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.

Reconstruct

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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