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noun

Recourse n.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. (Obs.) "Swift recourse of flushing blood." "Unto my first I will have my recourse." "Preventive physic... preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary."

Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort. "Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him." "Our last recourse is therefore to our art."

Access; admittance. (Obs.) "Give me recourse to him."

Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.

verb

Recourse v. i.

To return; to recur. (Obs.) "The flame departing and recoursing."

To have recourse; to resort. (Obs.)

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... who were thus attracted to a life of indolent devotion became in a short time so excessive that recourse was had to other devices for combining economy with accommodation, and groups of such cells were gradually formed into wiharas and monasteries, the inmates of which have uniformly preserved their organisation and order. Still the edifices thus constructed have never exhibited any tendency to depart ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

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... declared that it sanctioned and protected slavery, but were determined that the Territories should be admitted into the Union as free States. While many of them were in favor of emancipation, they expected that in some way this question would be settled without recourse to extreme measures, and they feared the effect, not only on the South but on the North, of the forcible language and radical demands of ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

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... access to them more readily. Being politely received by them, he asked to be presented to Alexander as soon as possible. They promised, but were rather slow, waiting for a suitable opportunity. So Dinocrates, thinking that they were playing with him, had recourse to his own efforts. He was of very lofty stature and pleasing countenance, finely formed, and extremely dignified. Trusting, therefore, to these natural gifts, he undressed himself in his inn, anointed his body with oil, set a chaplet of poplar ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

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... Christian name, the landing of the Scandinavian pirates, the thousandth anniversary of which is now being celebrated. They came—we cannot tell in what numbers, some thousands—and harried the land. The old policy of the Empire, the policy already seven hundred years old, was had recourse to; the barbarians were granted settlement, inheritance, marriage, and partnership with the Lords of the Villae; their chief was permitted to hold local government, to tax and to levy men as the administrator of the whole province; ...

— First and Last • H. Belloc

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... as this make it unsafe to trust implicitly, and without recourse, to the good temper of any animal having ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

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