recapitulator (rekapitulator)

[ This law is comprehensive and recapitulatory (as it were) of the rest concerning our neighbour, prescribing universal justice toward him. Barrow , Expos. of the Decalogue. cast. 4996 Popular feeling called for a diaskeué, or thorough re- De Quincey , Homer, iii. [ recaulescence (re-ka-les'ens), n. caulescen (t) + -ce .] In bot ., the adnation of a petiole to a peduncle or a leafy branch: a term of Schimper's. receive 51. Reception; admittance; a granting of entrance or admi ion. He wayted hym aboute, & wylde hit hym thozt, & seze no syngne of resette . Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2164. Ther (in heaven] entrez non to take reset , That berez any spot. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1066. Come, cave, become my grave; come, death, and lend Receipt to me within thy bosom dark. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. recchet, v. A Middle English form of reck . recchelest, a. A Middle English form of reck- le . recedel (rē-sēd'), v. i.; pret. and pp. receded , ppr. receding . [ receder , F. recéder = It. recedere, recedere , go back, withdraw, re- treat, re-, back, + cedere , go: see cede .] 1. things; a place where anything is received or To move back; retreat; withdraw; fall away. The world receded from her rising view, When heaven approach'd as earthly things withdrew. Crabbe, Works, IV. 186. 2. To withdraw an affirmation, a belief, a demand, or the like; turn back or aside. It is plain that the more you recede from your grounds, the weaker do you conclude. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 369. 6t. A place for the reception of persons or taken in; a station or a receptacle for lodgment. Men han made a litylle Resceyt, besyde a Pylere of that Chirche, for to resceyve the Offrynges of Pilgrymes. Mandeville, Travels, p. 112. Go forth, tary we not behynd, Vnto som receit nye the wodes lynde, Wher we mow thys tym receyued to be. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 159. He saw Levi... sitting at the receipt of custom [place Mark ii. 14. Memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only. 3. To have a backward inclination, slope, or ten of toll, R. V.]. dency: as, a receding coast-line; a receding chin. =Syn. 1. To retire, retrograde, give way. See retreat1 . recede2 (rē-sēd'), v . t . [ cede .] To cede back; grant or yield to a former po e or: as, to recede conquered territory. recedence (re-se'dens), n . Same as rece ion1 . [Rare.] [ recede1 + -ence .] IMG:content-1729.png:[blocks in formation] recaption (rē-kap's hon), n . [ re- + caption .] The act of retaking; reprisal; in law , the retak- p being inserted in imitation of the L. original, ing, without force or violence, of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children from one who has taken them and wrongfully detains them. Also called reprisal. - Writ of recaption, a writ to recover property taken by a second distre pending a replevin for a former distre for the same rent or service. recaptor (re-kap'tor), n. [