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Recur [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To return to the thought or mind.

2. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard.

3. To resort; to have recourse.

4. If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.

Recur [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.

2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.

3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.

Recure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cure; recovery. [Not in use.]

Recure [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cure; to recover. [Not in use.]

Recure [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cure; remedy; recovery.

Recure [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain.

2. To recover; to regain; to repossess.

3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.

4. To be a cure for; to remedy.

Recureless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Incapable of cure.

Recurred [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Recurrence [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RECUR'RENCE ,

2. RECUR'RENCY, noun [ See Recur .]

3. Return; as the recurrence of error.

4. Resort; the having recourse.

Recurrence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Recurrency

Recurrency [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.

Recurrent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Latin recurrens.

2. Returning from time to time; as recurrent pains of a disease.

3. In crystallography, a recurrent crystal is one whose faces, being counted in annular ranges from one extremity to the other, furnish two different numbers which succeed each other times, as 4, 8, 4, 8, 4.

4. In anatomy, the recurrent nerve is a branch of the par vagum, given off in the upper part of the thorax, which is reflected and runs up along the trachea to the larynx.

Recurrent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

2. Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.

Recurring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Recursant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

Recursion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Return. [Little used.]

Recursion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of recurring; return.

Recurvate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, bent, bowed or curved downwards; as a recurvate leaf.

2. Bent outward; as a recurvate prickle, awn, petiole, calyx or corol.

Recurvate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bend back.

Recurvate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recurved.

Recurvate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bend or curve back; to recurve.

Recurvation [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RECURVA'TION ,

2. RECURVE, verb transitive recurv'. [Latin recurvo, supra.] To bend back.

Recurvation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.

Recurve [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

Recurved [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bent back or downwards; as a recurved leaf.

Recurved [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

Recurviroster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A fowl whose beak or bill bends upwards, as the avoset.

Recurviroster [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Recurvirostral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the beak bent upwards.

Recurvity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A bending or flexure backwards.

Recurvity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recurvation.

Recurvous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bent backwards.

Recurvous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recurved.

Repetition Roget’s Thesaurus §104

N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity

V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword

Adj. repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another

Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day &c, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently

Phr. ecce iterum crispinus, toujours perdrix, "cut and come again", "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow", cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius

Frequency Roget’s Thesaurus §136

N. frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness, repetition, normality, example (conformity) 82, routine, custom (habit) 613, regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision, punctuality, even tenor, system, routine, formula, rule, keynote, standard, model, precedent, conformity

V. recur, do nothing but, keep, keep on

Adj. frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick, uniform, repeated, customary (habit) 613, regular (normal) 80, according to rule, common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar, old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial

Adv. often, oft, ofttimes, oftentimes, frequently, repeatedly, unseldom, not unfrequently, in quick succession, in rapid succession, many a time and oft, daily, hourly &c, every day, every hour, every moment &c. perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613, most often, commonly, sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again