recur

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Recurred p. pr. & vb. n. Recurring. ] [ L. recurrere; pref. re- re- + currere to run. See Current. ] 1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To resort; to have recourse; to go for help. [ 1913 Webster ]

If, to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the “punctum stans” of the schools, they will thereby very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Recurring decimal (Math.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. --
Recurring series (Math.), an algebraic series in which the coefficients of the several terms can be expressed by means of certain preceding coefficients and constants in one uniform manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Recover. ] 1. To arrive at; to reach; to attain. [ Obs. ] Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To recover; to regain; to repossess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When their powers, impaired through labor long,
With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair. [ 1913 Webster ]

In western waves his weary wagon did recure. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be a cure for; to remedy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No medicine
Might avail his sickness to recure. Lydgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cure; remedy; recovery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But whom he hite, without recure he dies. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of cure. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. récurrence. ] The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. recurrens, -entis, p. pr. of recurrere: cf.F. récurrent. See Recur. ] 1. Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Recurrent fever. (Med.) See Relapsing fever, under Relapsing. --
Recurrent pulse (Physiol.), the pulse beat which appears (when the radial artery is compressed at the wrist) on the distal side of the point of pressure through the arteries of the palm of the hand. --
Recurrent sensibility (Physiol.), the sensibility manifested by the anterior, or motor, roots of the spinal cord (their stimulation causing pain) owing to the presence of sensory fibers from the corresponding sensory or posterior roots. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. recursans, -antis, p. pr. of recursare to run back, v. freq. of recurrere. See Recure. ] (Her.) Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. recursio. See Recur. ] The act of recurring; return. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. recurvatus, p. p. of recurvare. See Re-, and Curvate. ] (Bot.) Recurved. [ 1913 Webster ]