recline 
In a shadow}- saloon, 
On silken cushions half reclined, 
I watch thy grace. Tennyson, Eleiinore. 
recline (re-klin'), a. [< L. reclinis, reclinus, 
leaning back, bent back, reclining, < recliiinn-. 
lean back, recline: see recline, v.] Leaning; 
being in a reclining posture. [Rare.] 
They sat recline 
On the soft downy bank damask'd with flowers. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 333. 
recliner (re-kli'ner), . One who or that which 
reclines ; specifically, a reclining dial. 
reclining-board (ve-kll'ning-bdrd), n. A board 
to which young persons are sometimes strapped, 
to prevent stooping and to give erectness to the 
figure. Mrs. S. C. Sail. 
reclining-chair (re-kli'ning-char), . A chair 
the back of which' can be tilted as desired, to 
allow the occupant to assume a reclining posi- 
tion ; an invalid-chair. 
reclivate (rek'li-vat), a. [< LL. reclivis, lean- 
ing backward, < L. re-, back, + clivus, sloping : 
see clivous.] In entom.. forming a double curve ; 
curving outward and then inward : noting mar- 
gins, parts of jointed organs, and processes. 
reclotne(re-kloTH'), v. t. [< re- + clothe.] To 
clothe again. 
The varying year with blade and sheaf 
Clothes and reclothes the happy plains. 
Tennyson, Day Dream, The Sleeping Palace. 
recludet (re-klod'), v. t. [= OP. reclure, re- 
clorre, F. reclure = Pr. reclaure, resclure = Sp. 
Pg. recluir, shut up, seclude, = It. richiudere, 
unclose, open, < LL. recludere, shut up or off, 
close, < L. recludere, unclose, open, also in LL. 
shut up, <re-, back, + claudere, shut: see close 1 , 
and cf. conclude, exclude, include, preclude, se- 
clude, occlude.'] To open ; unclose. 
Hem softe enclude, 
And towarde nyght hir yates thou recliide. 
Patladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 39. 
recluse (re-klos'), a. and n. [I. < ME. recluse, 
n.,< OF. reclus, F. reclus, fern. recluse = Pr. reclus 
= Sp. Pg. recluso = It. richiuso, < LL. reclusus, 
shut up (ML. reclusus, m., reclitsa, f., a recluse), 
pp. of recludere, shut up, L. unclose, open, etc. : 
see reclude. 2. < ME. recluse, < OF. recluse, a 
convent, monastery, < LL. reclusa, fern, of reclu- 
sus, shut up : see above.] I. a. Shut up or apart 
from the world ; retired from public notice ; se- 
questered; solitary; existing or passed in a soli- 
tary state : as, a recluse monk or hermit ; a re- 
cluse life. 
Here, as recluse as the Turkish Spy at Paris, I am almost 
unknown to every body. 
Goldsmith, To Rev. Thomas Contarine. 
II. . 1. A person who withdraws from the 
world to spend his days in seclusion and medi- 
tation; specifically, a member of a religious 
community who is voluntarily immured for life 
in a single cell. The life of a monastic recluse was a 
privilege accorded only to those of exceptional virtue, 
and only by express permission of the abbot, chapter, and 
bishop. In earlier monasticism, the recluse was immured 
in a cell, sometimes underground, and usually within the 
precincts of the monastery. He was to have no other ap- 
parel than that which he wore at the time of his incarce- 
ration. The doorway to the cell was walled up, and only 
a sufficient aperture was left for the conveyance of provi- 
sions, but so contrived as not to allow the recluse to see 
or be seen. Later monasticism greatly modified this rigor. 
2f. A place of seclusion; a retired or quiet 
situation ; a hermitage, convent, or the like. 
It is certain tl-at the church of Christ is the pillar of 
truth, or sacred reel-use and peculiar asylum of Religion. 
J. Wise, The Churches' Quarrel Espoused. 
recluset (re-kloV), v. t. [< ME. reclwsen; < re- 
cluse, a.] To shut up ; seclude ; withdraw from 
intercourse. 
Religious out-ryders reclined in here cloistres. 
Piers Ploumum (C), v. 116. 
I had a shrewd Disease hung lately upon me. proceed- 
ing, as the Physicians told me, from this long recluset Life. 
Bowell, Letters, ii. 29. 
reclusely (re-klos'li), adv. In a recluse man- 
ner; in retirement or seclusion from society; 
as a recluse. Lee, Eccles. Gloss, 
recluseness (re-klos'nes), H. The state of be- 
ing recluse; retirement; seclusion from society. 
A kind of calm recluseness is like rest to the overlaboured 
man. Feltham, On Eccles. ii. 11. (Resolves, p. 349.) 
reclusion (re-klo'zhon), n. [< F. reclusion = 
Sp. reclusion = Pg. reclusSo = It. reclugione, < 
ML. reclusio(n-), < LL. recludere, pp. reelusus, 
shut up : see reclude and recluse.] 1 . A state of 
retirement from the world ; seclusion. Johnson. 
2. Specifically, the life or condition of a re- 
cluse or immured solitary. 
reclusive (re-klo'siv), a. [< recluse + -ire.'] 
Affording retirement from society ; recluse. 
5004 
And if it sort not well, you may conceal her . . . 
In some reclusive and religious life. 
Shale., Much Ado, iv. 1. 244. 
reclUSOry(re-klo'so-ri),M.; pi. 
[= Sp. It. r'eelusor'io, < ML. reclitsiirinni, < LL. 
recludere, pp. reclusus, shut up, close: see re- 
cluse.'] The abode or cell of a recluse. 
recoctt (re-kokf), r. t. [< L. recoctus, pp. of 
rccoquere, cook again, < re-, again, + coquere, 
cook: see coot 1 , r.] To cook over again; 
hence, to vamp up or renew. 
Old women and men, too, . . . seek, as it were, by 
Medea's charms, to recoct their corps, as she did ^Eson's, 
from feeble deformities to sprightly handsomeness. 
Jer. Taylor (V), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 71. 
recoction (re-kok'shon), w. [< recoct + -ion.] 
A second coction or preparation. Imp. Diet. 
recognisable, recognise, etc. See recognizable, 
etc. 
recognition 1 (rek-og-nish'qn), n. [< OF. re- 
cognition, P. recognition = It. ricognizione, re- 
cognizione, < L. recognitio(n-), < recognoscere, 
pp. recognitus, recognize, know again : see rec- 
ognize 1 .] 1. The act of recognizing; a know- 
ing again; consciousness that a given object is 
identical with an object previously cognized. 
Every species of fancy hath three modes : recognition of 
a thing as present, memory of it as past, and foresight of 
it as to come, JV. Qrew. 
Sense represents phenomena empirically in perception, 
imagination in association, apperception in the empirical 
consciousness of the identity of these reproductive repre- 
sentations with the phenomena by which they were given 
therefore in recognition. 
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Miiller, p. 115. 
A person's recognition of a colour is in part an act of in- 
ference. ./. Sulla, Sensation and Intuition, p. 67. 
2. A formal avowal of knowledge and ap- 
proval or sanction ; acknowledgment : as, the 
recognition of one government by another as 
an independent sovereignty or as a belligerent. 
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly 
memorials, solemn recognition In the church of Ood. 
Hooker. 
This Byzantine synod assumed the rank and powers of 
the seventh general council ; yet even this title was a 
recognition of the six preceding assemblies. 
Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xlix. 
On the 4th he was received in procession at Westmin- 
ster, seized the crown and sceptre of the Confessor, and 
was proclaimed king by the name of Edward IV. . . . 
From the 4th of March the legal recognition of Edward's 
royal character begins, and the years of his reign date. 
Stubbs, Const, Hist, 35fi. 
Tiiat a man's right to the produce of his brain is equally 
valid with his right to the produce of his hands is a fact 
which has yet obtained but a very imperfect recognition. 
U. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 155. 
3. Cognizance; notice taken; acceptance. 
The interesting fact about Apollonius Is the extensive 
recognition which he obtained, and the ease with which 
his pretensions found acceptance in the existing condition 
of the popular mind. Frou.de, Sketches, p. 103. 
4. Iii Scots law, the recovery of lands by the 
proprietor when they fall to him by the fault 
of the vassal ; or, generally, any return of the 
feu to the superior, by whatever ground of evic- 
tion. =Syn. 1. See recognize*. 
recognition 2 (re"kog-nish'on), M. A repeated 
cognition. 
recognitive (re-kog'ni-tiv), a. [< L. recognitus, 
pp. of recognoscere, recognize, + -iir. Cf. cog- 
recognize 
recognizance (re-kog'ni-zans or re-kon'i-zans), 
n. [< ME. recni/nixinirr. ' rrrniii/xiuiunce, < OF. 
n cminoisance, reconoisance, rc- 
, ffroiiiiuiHcc, etc., F. reconnaissance 
(> E. reconnaissance) = Pr. reconaissensa, rego- 
iiiii/.tnensa = Pg. reconheceiifa = It. riconoscenza, 
< ML. rccognoscentia, a recognizing, acknow- 
ledgment, an obligation binding one over to do 
some particular act, < L. recognoscen(t-)s, ppr. 
of recognoscere, recognize: see recognize 1 . Cf. 
cognizance.] 1. The act of recognizing; ac- 
knowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; 
recognition. 
The great bell that heaves 
With solemn sound and thousand others more. 
That distance of recognizance* bereaves, 
Make pleasing music and not wild uproar. 
Keats, Sonnet, " How many Bards." 
2. Mark or badge of recognition; token. 
Hue did gratify his amorous works 
With that recognizance and pledge of love 
Which I first gave her [a handkerchief]. 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 214. 
3. In late: (a) An obligation of record entered 
into before some court of record or magistrate 
duly authorized, conditioned to do some par- 
ticular act, as to appear at court, to keep the 
peace, or pay a debt. 
He was bounden in a reconyssaunce 
To paye twenty thousand sheeld anon. 
Chaucer, Shipman's Tale, 1. 330. 
This fellow might be in ' time a great buyer of land, 
with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double 
vouchers, his recoveries. Shot., Hamlet, v. 1. 113. 
(6f) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon as- 
size To enter into recognizances. Seeenteri. 
recognizant (re-kog'ni-zant or re-kon'i-zant), 
a. [< OF. recognoissant, ppr. of recognotstre, 
etc., recognize: see recognize 1 ."] Recognizing; 
perceiving. 
The laird did his best to help him ; but he seemed no- 
wise recognizant. 
George MacDonald, Warlock o' Glenwarlock, xv. 
nitive."] Recognizing; recognitory. 
recognitort (re-kog'ni-tor), n. [< AF. reco- 
gnitor, < ML. recognitor, < L. recognitus, pp. of 
recognoscere, recognize: see recognize 1 .] ialaw, 
one of a jury impaneled on an assize : so called 
because they acknowledge a disseizin by their 
verdict. The recognitor was a witness rather 
than a juror in the modern sense. 
The inquests by Recognitors which we hear of from the 
time of the Conqueror onwards the sworn men by whose 
oaths Domesday was drawn up come much more nearly 
[than compurgators] to our notion of Jurors, but still they 
are not the thing itself. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 303. 
recognitory (re-kog'ni-to-ri), a. [< L. recog- 
nitus, pp. of recognoscere, recognize, + -ory 1 .'] 
Pertaining to or connected with recognition. 
A pun and its recoynitory laugh must be co-instanta- 
neous. Lamb, Distant Correspondents. 
recognizability (rek-og-m-za-biri-ti), n. [< rec- 
ognizable + -ity (see -bilitjj).] The state of 
being recognizable ; capacity for being recog- 
nized. 
recognizable (rek'og-ni-za-bl or re-kog'ni- 
za-bl), a. [< recognize 1 + ^able. Cf. OF. recon- 
noissable, F. reconnaissable.] Capable of being 
recognized, known, or acknowledged. Also 
spelled recognisable. 
recognizably (rek'pg-m-za-bli or re-kog'ni-za- 
bli), adr. So as to be recognized. ' 
recognization (re-kog-ni-za'shpn), . [< recog- 
nize^ + -ation.] The act of recognizing. 
recognize 1 (rek'og-mz), v. ; pret. and pp. recog- 
nized, ppr. recognizing. [With accom. term. 
-tee (as if from recognizance), after OF. reco- 
gnoistre, F. reconnoitre (> E. reconnoiter) = Pr. 
recognoscer, reconoscer = Sp. reconocer = Pg. 
rcconhecer = It. riconoscere, < L. recognoscere, 
know again, recall to mind, recognize, examine, 
certify, < re-, again, + cognoscere, know: see 
cognition. Cf. cognize.'] I. trans. 1. To know 
(the object) again ; recall or recover the know- 
ledge of; perceive the identity of with some- 
thing formerly known or in the mind. 
Then first he recognis'd the tcthereal guest ; 
Wonder and joy alternate fire his breast. 
Fenton, in Pope's Odyssey, L 415. 
To recognise an object is to identify it with some object 
previously seen. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 226. 
2. To avow or admit a knowledge of, with 
approval or sanction; acknowledge or accept 
formally : as, to recognize one as ambassador ; 
to recognize a government as an independent 
sovereignty or as a belligerent. 
He brought several of them . . . to recognize their sense 
of their undue procedure used by them unto him. 
Bp. Fell, Life of Hammond. (Latham.) 
Only that State can live in which injury to the least 
member is recognized as damage to the whole. 
Emerson, Address, Soldiers' Monument, Concord. 
Holland, immediately after the surrender of Yorktown, 
had recognised the independence of America, which had 
as yet only been recognised by France. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xv. 
3. To indicate one's acquaintance with (a per- 
son) by a salute: as, to pass one without recog- 
nizing him. 4. To indicate appreciation of: 
as, to recognize merit. 5. To review; ree'x- 
amine; take cognizance of anew. 
However their causes speed in your tribunals, Christ 
will recognize them at a greater. South. 
6. To acknowledge; admit or confess as an 
obligation or duty. 
It is more to the purpose to urge that those who have 
so powerful an engine | as the press] in then* hands should 
recognize their responsibility in the use of it. 
H. S. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 87. 
= Syn.2-4. Recognize, Acknowledge. The essential dif- 
ference between these words lies in the difference be- 
tween letting in to one's own knowledge (recognize) and 
letting out to other people's knowledge (acknowledge). 
Hence the opposite of recognize is disown or some kindred 
word; tl) at of acknowledge ii conceal ot deny, torecognize 
an obligation and to acknowledge an obligation differ pre- 
cisely in this way. The preacher may be able to make a 
man recognize, even if he cannot make him acknowledge. 
his need of moral improvement. See acknowledge. 
