recourse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of seeking assistance or advice.

   • Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
   • All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.
2. 2

   The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.

3. 3

   A coursing back, or coursing again

   A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.

   • [B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.
   • For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]
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   1. 4

      Access

      Access; admittance.

      • [...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd ſacke, to giue me recourſe to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a ieſt.
   2. 5

      To return

      To return; to recur.

      • […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
   3. 6

      To have recourse

      To have recourse; to resort.

   4. 7

      To recurse (execute a procedure recursively).

The neighborhood

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