recoctt (rekokt)

t. [ Old women and men, too,. seek, as it were, by Medea's charms, to recoct their corps, as she did Æson's, from feeble deformities to sprightly handsomene . Jer . Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 71. rec oct i on (rē-kok's hon), п . [ recoct + -ion.] A second coction or preparation. Imp . Dict . recognisable, recognise, etc. See recognizable, etc. recognition1 (rek-og-nish'on), n. [ 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. N. Grew. Sense represents phenomena empirically in perception, imagination in a ociation, apperception in the empirical consciousne of the identity of these reproductive representations with the phenomena by which they were given therefore in recognition . ference. Kant , Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Müller, p. 115. A person's recognition of a colour is in part an act of inJ. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 67. 2. A formal avowal of knowledge and approval 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 God. Hooker . sus, shut up: see above.] I. a. Shut up or apart from the world; retired from public notice; sequestered; solitary; existing or pa ed in a solitary 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. n . 1. A person who withdraws from the world to spend his days in seclusion and meditation; 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 expre permi ion 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 apparel 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. 21. A place of seclusion; a retired or quiet situation; a hermitage, convent, or the like. It is certain that the church of Christ is the pillar of truth, or sacred recluse and peculiar asylum of Religion. J. Wise , The Churches' Quarrel Espoused. recluset (re-klöz'), v. t. [ Religious out-ryders reclused in here cloistres.