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Rkcei'TION, in AJirohgy, is a dignity befalling two planets 

 when they excluingi- lioulc'S ; e. ^r. when tlie hin arrives in 

 Cancer, the honfe of the moon ; and the moon, in her re- 

 turn, arrives in the fun's honfe. 



The fame term is alio ufed, when two planets exchange 

 exaltation. 



RECEPTITIOUS Goods. Sec Goods. 

 RECESSION of the Equinoxes. See PRECESSION of ih: 

 Equinoxes. 



RECESSUS, a word uled by fome medical writers to 

 exprefs an abfcefs, or apoilhumation. 



Reckssus Imperii, liecefs of the Empire, a phrafe uled in 

 fpeaking of the affairs of Germany ; fignifying a colleAion 

 of the vote* or determinations of a diet. 



At the end of each diet, before it breaks up, they gather 

 together all their refolutions, and reduce them into writing ; 

 the aft which contaius them they call the rccsffus imperii, be- 

 caufe made when on the point of retiring. 



RECEYyJij- Oufce, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Cote d'Or, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the diilridl of Chatillon ; 15 miles S.E. of 

 Chatillon. The place contains 880, and the canton 5913 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 260 kiliometres, in 17 com- 

 munes. 



RECHABITES, a kind of religious order among the 

 ancient Jews, hiftituted by Jonadab the fon of Rechab ; and 

 comprehending his family and pofterity. 



Their founder prefcribed them three things : firft. Not 

 to drink any wine. Secondly, Not to build any houfes, 

 but to dwell under tents. Thirdly, Not to fow any corn, 

 or plant any vines. 

 t The Rechabites obferved thefe rules with great ftrift- 

 nefs, as appears from Jerem. xxxv. 6, &c. AVhence St. 

 Jerom, in his thirteenth epiftle to Pauhnus, calls them mo- 

 nachi, monh. Jonadab, their founder, lived under Jehoafli, 

 king of Judah, contemporary with Jehu, king of Ifrael ; his 

 father Rechab, from whom his pofterity were denomi- 

 nated, defcended from Raguel or Jethro, father-in-law 

 to Mofes, who was a Kenite, or of the race of Ken ; 

 whence Kenite and Reohabite are ufed as fynonimous in 

 fcripture. 



The Kenites entered the promlfed land with the He- 

 brews, and dwelt in the tribe of Judah, about the Dead 

 iea. They were diftinguifhcd from the Ifraelites by their 

 retired fort of life, and by their contempt of cities and 

 houfes. Serrurius diftinguilhes the ancient Rechabites 

 defcended from, and inftitutv-d by, Jethro, from the new 

 Rechabites of Jonadab. The injuntlion of Jonadab laid 

 no obligation on the other Kenites, nor on the other de- 

 fcendants of Jethro. This they continued to oblerve above 

 300 years. Jehu began to reign A.M. 3120, and Jehoia- 

 kim, king of Judah, was put to death A.M. 3405, B.C. 

 599; but in the laft year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, 

 Nebuchadnezzar coming to befiege Jernfalem, the Recha- 

 bites were forced to take refuge in the city. Hill, how- 

 ever, lodging in tents. During this fiege, Jeremiah re- 

 ceived orders from the Lord to converfe with the difciples 

 cf Rechab, to invite them into the temple, and to offer 

 them wine to drink. But the Rechabites would not accept 

 the offer. 



The Rechabites were, probably, led captive, after the 

 taking of Jerufalem by the Chaldteans. (See Pfalm Ixx.) 

 They returned from their captivity, and fettled in the city 

 of Jabez beyond Jordan. {See i Chron. ii. 55.) Some 

 have fuggefted, that the Afrid;Eans of the Maccabees, 

 (l Mace. ii. 42. vii. 13. and 2 Mace. xiv. 6.) were fuccef- 

 fors and followers of the Rechabites. Others have con- 

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founded them with the EfTenos. But it is certain, that tk? 

 nianmr of life ot the Effenes was very difft-rcnt from (hal 

 ot the Rechabites, as appears from Jofeph -s, Antiq lib 

 xviii. cap. 2. who informs us, that the Effenes had (ieJds 

 and inhabited houfes, but had neither wives nor children- 

 and did not perform their religious ceremonies with the 

 other Jews at Jerufalem : aU which was contrary to the 

 pradtice of the Rechabites. 



RECHACING, in Hunting, the driving back of the 

 deer, or other bealls, into the forefls, chaces, &c. which 

 had flraggled out into the copfes or thickets, &c. 



Anciently there were offices of rechacers of the decrs be- 

 flowed by the king on gentlemen, or old hunters, with falaries 

 for the keeping of running dogs to rechace the deer into the 

 forefts, and then to beat the dogs off, without purfuina- anv 



farther 



RECHANGE, in Commerce. See Re-exchange. ~ 

 Rechange is alio ufed at fea for fuch tackle as is kent 



in refcrve aboard the fhip, to ferve in cafe of failure of 



that already in ufe. See Tackle. 



Tfie Levantines ufe the word re/ped or refpil in the fame 



fenfe. 



RECHARGE of a Fire Jrm, is a fecond loading, 

 or charge. The recharge (hould never be fo deep as 

 the firfl charge, left the piece, being over heated, fliould 

 burft. 



RECHBERG, if\ Geography, a town of Auftria : eitrht 

 miles N.W. of Grein. ^ 



RECHE, a river of France, which runs into the Am- 

 blave, near Malmedy.— Alfo, a town of England, in the 

 county of Cambridge, on the river Cam, formerly a place 

 of great trade, and before the draining of the fens, a port 

 for vefFels of confidcrable burthen ; five miles W. of New- 

 market. 



RECHE AT, in Hunting, a lefTon which the huntfman 

 winds on the horn, when the hounds have loft their game, 

 to call them back from purfuing a counter-fcent. 



RECHENBURG, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in 

 the circle of Erzgeberg ; four miles S.E. of Frauenftein. 

 RECHIA, a town of Servia ; too miles W. of NifTa 

 N. lat. 43^^ 12'. E. long. 19° 3'. 



RECHICOURT, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Meurthe, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftrid of Sarrebourg ; five miles N. of Blamant. The 

 place contains 992, and the canton 8516 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 217^ kiliometres, in 18 communes. 



RECHNITZ, a town of Hungary ; fix miles S.S.W. 

 ofGuntz. 



RECHPERG, a town of Auftria; two miles N. of 

 Stain. 



RECIMUS, among the Romans, a kind of fquare man- 

 tle, or veil, worn by women on the head. Salmafius 

 will have it to hav been a fort of gown ufed by the Ro- 

 man ladies, and tucked up before with a fipare pin, of a 

 purple colour. 



RECINA, in Geography, a town of the marquifate of 

 Ancona ; three miles N.W. of Macerata. 



RECIPE, in Medicine, a prefcription, or formula, of a 

 remedy, appointed to be admiuiftered to a patient. See 

 Prescription. 



It is thus called, becaufe always beginning with the word 

 recipe, take; ordinarily exprefted by the abbreviation H;. 



RECIPIANGLE, or Recipient-angle, a mathema- 

 tical iii/trument, ferving to take the quantity of angles : 

 ufed efpecially in the drawing plans of fortifications. 



The recipiangle v.as formerly a popular iiiftrument amonor 

 tiie French, but little known among us ; it is afually very 



3 U fimple, 



