recuse
verbEtymology
From Late Middle English recusen, from Old French recuser (modern French récuser (“to challenge; to impugn; (formal) to make an objection; (law) to recuse”), and from its etymon Latin recūsāre, the present active infinitive of recūsō (“to decline, refuse, reject; (law) to object to, protest”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’, denoting opposition or reversal) + causa (“cause, reason; (law) case, claim; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of rouse and possibly ruse. Cognates * Catalan recusar * French récuser * Italian ricusare * Old Occitan recuzar * Portuguese recusar * Spanish recusar
Definitions
To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
- [T]he Quenys grace may alvvayes recuſe & appell at her good pleaſure & libertie, from vvhatſoever Decree or Sentence, either interlocutorie, or definitive, ſhe vvil: […]
To refuse (to do something).
To dismiss (an appeal).
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Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor
Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- The district attorney recused from the case because he used to work for the company which was the defendant.
The neighborhood
- neighboraccuse
- neighborcause
- neighborexcuse
- neighborrecusance
- neighborrecusancy
- neighborrecusant
- neighborrecusation
- neighborrecusative
- neighborrecusator
- neighborrecusatory
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at recuse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at recuse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at recuse
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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