recountal 
A mere recountal of facts. 
A. V. J. Allen, Jonathan Edwards, p. v. 
recountment (re-kount'ment), n. [< recoil >i ft + 
-mcnt.~\ Relation in detail ; recital. [Rare.] 
When from the first to last betwixt us two 
Tears our recoupments had most kindly bathed. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 141. 
recoup (re-kop'), v. t. [< OF. recouper, recoup- 
per, recotper, recoper, cut again, cut back, cut 
off, strike, F. recouper, cut again, < re-, again, 
+ eonper, cut: see coupon, couj>e.~\ 1. In law, 
to keep back as a set-off or discount; diminish 
by keeping back a part : as, to recoup from a 
servant's wages the damages caused by his 
negligence; to recoup from the price of goods 
sold a claim for breach of warranty as to qual- 
ity. 2. To reimburse or indemnify for a loss 
or damage by a corresponding advantage : com- 
monly used reflexively. 
Elizabeth had lost her venture ; but, if she was bold, she 
might recoup herself at Philip's cost. Froude. 
It was necessary for parliament to intervene to compel 
the landlord to recoup the tenant for his outlay on the 
land. W. S. Gregg, Irish Hist, for Eng. Headers, p. 161. 
3. To return or bring in an amount equal to. 
Why should the manager be grudged his ten per cent. 
. . . when it would be the means of securing to the share- 
holders dividends that in three or four years would recoup 
their whole capital? 
Saturday Rev., Aug. 1, 1868, p. 151. (Latham.) 
recoup ( re-kop'), n. [< OF. rccoupe, recouppe, 
something cut off, a shred, < recouper, cut off: 
see recoup, v.~\ In law, the keeping back of 
something which is due ; a deduction ; recoup- 
ment; discount. Wharton. 
recoup^ (re-ko-pa'), a. [< F. recoupe, pp. of re- 
couper, cut again: see recoup, !.] In her., cut 
or divided a second time : especially noting an 
escutcheon which, being divided per fesse, is 
divided again barwise, usually in the base. 
recouped (re-kopf), a. [< recoup + -ecft, after 
F. recoupe: see recoup, v."] In her. : (a) Same 
as couped. (b) Same as recoup^. 
recouper (re-ko'per), . In law, one who re- 
coups or keeps back. Story. 
recoupment (re-kop'ment), n. [< OF. (and F.) 
recoupement, < recouper, recoup : see recoup, *>.] 
In law, the act of recouping or retaining a part 
of a sum due by reason of a legal or equitable 
right to abate it because of a cross-claim aris- 
ing out of the same transaction or relation. 
recourt, recouret, '' t. Obsolete forms of re- 
5010 
2. To have recourse. 
The Court rf-courst to Lakes, to Springs, and Brooks : 
Brooks, Springs, and Lakes had the like taste and looks. 
Sylvester, tr. of l>u Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
recoursefult (re-kors'fiil), ii. [< recourse + 
-//.] Returning; moving alternately. 
Thetis' handmaids still in that recourse/ill deep 
With those rough Gods of sea continual revels keep. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, i. 279. 
recover 1 (re-kuv'er), r. t. [< OF. (and F.) rc- 
coumr, cover again, cover up, = Pr. reeobrir = 
OCat. ricobrir = It. ricoprirc, cover again, < L. 
re-, again, + cooperire, cover, hide: see cover 1 , 
r>.] To cover again or anew. Sometimes writ- 
ten distinctively re-cover. 
When they [old shoes] are in great danger, I recover 
them. SAo*., J. C., L 1. 28. 
recover 2 (re-kuv'er), r. [< ME. recoveren, re- 
coevreii, recoeuren, rccouren, recuren, rekevereu, 
rekeureit, < OF. recovrer, recouvrer, recuvrer, re- 
coevrer, recoverer, recouverer, regain, recover, 
get, obtain, etc., F. recoucrer, recover, = Pr. Sp. 
recobrar = Pg. recuperar = It. recuperare, < L. 
recuperare, reciperare, get again, regain, recov- 
er, revive, restore; in ML. also intr., revive, con- 
valesce, recover; < re- + -cnperare, -ciperare, 
. 
recourse (re-kors'), > [< ME. recours, < OF. 
(and F.) recount = Pr. raws = Sp. Pg. recurso 
= It. ricorso, recourse, retreat, <. L. recursus, 
a running back, return, retreat, < recurrere, 
pp. recursus, run back, retreat: see recur. Cf. 
course^.] 1. Resort for help or protection, as 
when in difficulty or perplexity. 
As I yow saie, so schall it bee, 
Ye nedis non othir recours to craue. 
York Plays, p. 237. 
Hippomenes, therefore, had recourse to stratagem. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, iv. 
Though they (the Italians] might have recourse to bar- 
barity as an expedient, they did not require it as a stimu- 
lant. Macavlay, Machiavelli. 
2. Resort; customary visitation or communi- 
cation. 
Vpon their countrye bordered the Kerutans, of whose 
nature and condicions Cesar founde thus muche by en- 
quirye, that there was no recourse of merchants vnto them. 
Qolding, tr. of Caesar, fol. 53. 
3f. Access; admittance. 
I'll give you a pottle of burnt sack to give me recourse 
to him, and tell him my name is Brook. 
Shot., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 223. 
4f. Return ; new attack ; recurrence. 
Preventive physick . . . preventeth sickness in the 
healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary. 
Sir T. Browne. 
5f. Repeated course : frequent flowing. 
Priamus and Hecuba on knees, 
Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears. 
Shak., T. and C., v. 3. 55. 
6. In Scots law, the right of an assignee or dis- 
ponee under the warrandice of the transaction 
to recur on the vendor or cedent for relief in 
case of eviction or of defects inferring war- 
randice Indorsement without recourse. See in- 
dorsement. 
recourset (re-kors'), v. i. [< L. recursare, run 
back, freq. of recurrere, run back: see recur, 
and cf. recourse, v.~\ 1. To return ; recur. 
The flame departing and recoursiny thrise ere the wood 
took strength to be the sharper to consume him. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 924. 
Kecoursiny to the thinges forepaste, and divining of 
thinges to come. Spenser, F. Q., To the Reader. 
cuperate, and recure 1 , a contracted form, and 
cover'*, a reduced form, of recover?.] I. trans. 
1 . To regain ; get or obtain again (after it has 
been lost). 
And some to ryde and to rectteure that vnrigtfully was 
wonne. Piere Plowman (B), xix 239. 
Than com alle the Bretouns oute of the wode. and haue 
recouered the felde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 654. 
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried 
away. 1 Sam. xxx. 18. 
I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet, 
Gin she had recover'd her hearin'. 
Burnt, Last May a Braw Wooer. 
2. To restore from sickness, faintness, or the 
like; cure; heal. 
Am I God, . . . that this man doth send unto me to 
recover a man of his leprosy? 2 Kl. v. 7. 
He 's most desperate ill, sir ; 
I do not think these ten months will recotwrhim. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, v. 3. 
3. To repair the loss or injury of; retrieve; 
make up for : as, to recover lost time. 
" For los of catel may recovered be, 
But los of tyme shendeth us," quod he. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Man of Law's Tale, 1. 27. 
Yet this loss, 
Thus far at least recover'd, hath much more 
Establish'd in a safe unenvied throne. 
Milton, P. L., il. 22. 
Diligence . . . gives great advantages to men : it loses 
no time, it conquers difficulties, recovers disappointments, 
gives dispatch, supplies want of parts. 
Penn, Advice to his Children, iii. 10. 
Jamaica society has never recovered the mixture of Buc- 
caneer blood. 
Dr. Arnold, lite and Correspondence, p. 505. 
He had given a shake to her confidence which it never 
could recover. J. H. Newman, Loss and Gain, p. 263. 
4. To rescue ; save from danger. 
That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the 
deviL 2 Tim. ii. 2e. 
If you will not undo what you have done that is, kill 
him whom you have recovered [saved from drowning] 
desire it not. Shak., T. N., it. 1. 39. 
He fell into the water, near the shore, where it was not 
six feet deep, and could not be recovered. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 291. 
5f. To reach by some effort; get; gain; find; 
come to ; return to. 
With cormerantes make thy nek long, 
In pondys depe thy pray to recouere. 
Political Poems, etc. <ed. Furnivall), p. 25. 
If she be lost, we shal recovere another. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 406. 
Sir And. If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way 
out. Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 200. 
The forest is not three leagues off ; 
If we recover that, we are sure enough. 
Shak., T. G. of V., v. 1. 12. 
Your son-in-law came to me so near the time of his go- 
ing away as it had been impossible to have recovered him 
with a letter at so far a distance as he was lodged. 
Donne, Letters, lix. 
6f. To reconcile ; reestablish friendly relations 
with. 
What, man ! there are ways to recover the general again : 
you are but now cast in his mood ; . . . sue to him again, 
and he 's yours. Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 273. 
7. In law, to obtain by judgment in a court of 
law or by legal proceedings: as, to recover 
lands in ejectment; to recover damages for a 
wrong, or for a breach of contract. It does not 
recoverable 
necessarily imply the actual gain of satisfaction or pos- 
session, but ordinarily only the obtaining of judgment 
therefor. 
There is no luge y-sette of suche trespace 
By which of right one may reroifr/'tl he. 
Political Poems, etc. (r<l. Km-nivall), p. 74. 
8. In hunting, to start (a hare) from her cover 
or form. Hiilliirrll.Q^. To fetch; deal. 
He [Pounce] . . . smote the kynge vpon the helme, . . . 
and whan Pounce wolde have recovered a-nother stroke, 
the kynge spored his horse in to the stour. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 391. 
10f. To restore to a previous state. 
To hiden his desire al in mewe 
From every wyght yborne, alle outrely, 
But he myghte aught recovered be therby. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 383. 
Recover arms (miltt.), a word of command, in Bring, re- 
quiring the piece to be brought back or recovered from 
the position of aim to that of ready. To recover one's 
self. () To regain one's strength, consciousness, com- 
posure, or the like. 
He fell down for dead ; . . . 
But Robin he soon recovered himself, 
And bravely fell to it again. 
Robin Hood and the Ranger (Child's Ballads, V. 209). 
(M) To recoup one's self. 
I shall pay the Wager in the Place appointed, and try 
whether lean recover mysetf at Gioco d'amore, which the 
Italian saith is a Play to cozen the Devil. 
Howell, Letters, I. v. 26. 
To recover the wind of, to cause (an animal pursued) 
to run with the wind, that it may not perceive the snare. 
Why do you go about to recover the wind of me, as if 
you would drive me into a toil? Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 361. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. To get back, repair, recruit, recuperate, 
reestablish. 
II. intrans. 1. To regain health after sick- 
ness; grow well again: often followed byo/or 
from. 
Go, enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether 
I shall recover of this disease. 2 Ki. i. 2. 
With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover. 
Shak., M. N. D., v. 1. 317. 
2. To regain a former state or condition, as 
after misfortune or disturbance of mind: as, 
to recover from a state of poverty or depres- 
sion. In this sense formerly and still some- 
times used elliptically without from. 
Twelue of the men in the flyboat were throwne from the 
Capstern by the breaking of a barre, and most of them so 
hurt that some never recovered it. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith'i Works, 1. 102. 
Two of ... [the men] fell into the ice, yet recovered 
again. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 302. 
As soon as Jones had a little recovered his first surprise. 
Fielding, Tom Jones, v. 6. 
Just as we were recovering the effects of breakfast, the 
sound of firing from Outram's position summoned all idlers 
to the front. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 284. 
3f. To come; arrive; make one's way. 
With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch. 
Fuller. 
4. To obtain a judgment at law ; succeed in a 
lawsuit: as, the plaintiff has recovered in his 
suit. 
recover 2 (re-kuv'er), . [< ME. recover, recure ; 
from the verb.] If. Recovery. 
He was in peril to deye, 
And but if he hadde recnurere the rather that rise shulde 
he neure. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 67. 
I'le witness when I had recovered him, 
The prince's head being split against a rocke 
Past all recover. Tragedy of Hoffman (1631)i 
2. In boating, the movement of the body by 
which a rower reaches forward from one stroke 
in preparation for the next: as, the bow oar is 
slow in the recover. 
recover ability (re-kuv'er-a-biri-ti), n. [< re- 
coverable + -ily (see -MM*).] The state or 
property of being recoverable. 
recoverable (re-kuv'er-a-bl), a. [< OF. (and 
F.) recouvrable'; as recover 2 + -able. Cf. recu- 
perable."] 1. Capable of being regained or re- 
covered. 
You have lost nothing by missing yesterday at the trials, 
but a little additional contempt for the High Steward ; and 
even that is recoverable, as his long paltry speech is to be 
printed. Walpole, Letters, II. 43. 
2. Restorable from sickness, faintness, dan- 
ger, or the like. 
It is a long time ... to spend in [mental] darkness; 
... If I am recoverable, why am I thus? 
Cowper, To Rev. John Newton, Jan. 13, 1784. 
3. Capable of being brought back to a former 
condition. 
A prodigal course 
Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable. 
Shak.,1. of A., iii. 4. 13. 
4. Obtainable from a debtor or possessor: as, 
the debt is recoverable. 
