The papists made no scruple of coming to our churches; röd = Goth

rauths ( raud- ), red; cf. AS. reód recusancy was not then so much as a chrisom, not an embryo. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 98. There is also an inferior species of recusancy (refusing to make the declaration against popery enjoined by statute 30 Car. II. st. 2, when tendered by the proper mag is Black stone , Com., IV. iv. trate). We shall see that mere recusancy was first made punish able, later on in the reign, by the Second Act for Uniformity of Edward. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xv., note. 3. The tenets of the recusants, or adherence to those tenets. The penalties of recusancy were particularly hard upon women, who adhered longer to the old religion than the other sex. Hallam , Const. Hist., vii., note, recusant (rek'u-zant or rē-kūʼzant), a . and n. [ recusant , F. récusant = Sp. Pg. recusante = It. ricusante , recusan ( t- ) s , ppr. of recu sare , reject, object: see recuse .] I. a. Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in Eng . hist ., refusing to attend divine service in Anglican churches, or to acknowledge the ecclesiastical supremacy of the crown. No recusant lord might have a vote in pa ing that act. Clarendon . (= Icel. rjódhr ), red, rud , rudu , redne (see rud ); reódan , make red, kill, = Icel. rjō dha (pret. raudh ), redden (see red1, v.); akin to L. ruber ( rubr- , for ruthr- , = Gr. ἑρυθρός ), red, rufus , red, rubidus , dark-red, rubere , turn red, blush, rubicund us , red, reddish, ru us , reddish, rutilus , reddish, robigo , rust, etc.; Gr. ἐρυθρός , red, ἔρευθος , redne , ἐρευθεῖν , redden; Ir. Gael. ruadh = W. rhudd , red; OBulg. rŭdrŭ , red, rŭ diet i , blush, etc., rud a , metal, etc., = Bohem. Pol. rud a , ore, rust, mildew, etc., = Ru . rud a , ore, mineral, a mine, blood, etc.; Lith. rudas , rusvas , red-brown, raúdas , raudónas , red, rauda , red color; Skt. rudhira , red, blood, rohita (for * rodhita ), red. From the E. root, besides red den, reddish , etc., are derived rud , ruddle , rud dock , ruddy , rust , etc.; from the L. are derived E. ruby , rubescent , rubric , rubicund , rufous , rus set , rutilate , rutilant ; from the Gr. are Erythræa , erythric, etc. Red , like lead2 (led), with which it is phonetically parallel, had in ME. a long vowel, which has become shortened. The long vowel remains, however, in the surnames Read ,