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All derived from 9,053 borrowed from 5,710 learned borrowing from 1,127 calque of 209 semantic loan from 2 recognitive Connected with recognition. recognitor One of a jury impaneled on an assize. recognosce To recognise. reconciliatory That reconciles. recond To put away; to set apart. reconditory A repository; a storehouse recriminate To accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge. recrudescent Breaking out again or reemerging after temporary abatement or suppression. recta ratio “Right reason”, which regards virtue as desirable in itself. recte Used parenthetically in a verbatim quotation to correct an error in the source (compare sic, which notes an error without correcting it) recti- straight rectificate To rectify. Rectina A female given name from Latin, of historical usage. rectitudinal Characterized by rectitude. rectitudinarian A person who has a high standard of rectitude rectitudinous righteous or correct or upright rector magnificus The male head of a German university. rectrix A governess; a rectoress. rectus abdominis muscle A pair of segmented skeletal muscle on the ventral aspect of a person's abdomen. rectus muscle A rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body. recubation recumbence; a state of lying down recumb To lean; to recline; to repose. recuperator A person who recuperates, or regains their health. recuperatory Of or relating to recuperation; tending to recovery. recursant Having its back towards the observer. recurvous recurved recusant Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, whether a Protestant dissident or a Roman Catholic. recusation The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice. recussion The act of beating or striking back. redame To love in return. redargution The act of redarguing; refutation. reddition restoration; restitution: surrender redditive Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply. redemptrix A female redeemer. redhibition The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect. redient returning redintegrate To renew, restore to wholeness. redintegration Restoration to a whole or sound state. redition The act of returning; a return. redivivus Living again; brought back to life. Redones A Gallic tribe dwelling in the eastern part of the Brittany peninsula during the Iron Age and subsequent Roman conquest of Gaul. reducent Tending to reduce. reductio ad absurdum The method of disproving a statement by assuming the statement is true and, with that assumption, arriving at a blatant contradiction. redundance Redundancy. refel To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone). referendary One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. referrible referable reflorescence A new blossoming of a plant during the season. reflorescent That flowers again. refluent Flowing back. refluous Flowing backwards; refluent. refocillate To revive or refresh. refocillation The restoration of strength by means of refreshment. reformandum That which is to be reformed. refragable Capable of being refuted; refutable. refrangible That may be refracted. refrication A rubbing up afresh; a brightening. refrigerium Cooling refreshment; refrigeration. refringence refractive power; refraction refulge To shine brightly; to be refulgent. refulgence the quality of being refulgent; refulgency refulgent Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly. refutandum Something that is to be refuted. refutatory Tending to refute. regalia majora Things that inherently belong to the sovereign and are inseparable from his or her person. regalia minora Things that inherently belong to the sovereign but may be conveyed to a subject. regeneratrix A female regenerator. regermination Germination again or anew; the act of regerminating. regest A register. regian A monarchist; a royalist. regible That may be ruled; governable, tractable. Regifugium An annual festival on February 24 in Ancient Rome, commemorating the expulsion of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC. reginacide One who kills a queen. regium donum An annual grant of public money to Presbyterian and other nonconformist ministers in England, Scotland, and especially Ireland, where it only ceased in 1871. regius professor A professor who holds a position created by or filled by a royal patron. regrede To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. regressus The entitlement of a debtor to have a co-debtor pay their share. regulize To make or become regular; regularize. re infecta With the matter unfinished or incomplete. reinfund To flow in again. reintegrant Something that has been reintegrated. reism A form of concretism stating that (i) every object is a body and (ii) no object is a state or relation, or property. rejectamenta Things that are thrown away or rejected; items with little or no value waste, rubbish, garbage, refuse, ejecta rejectaneous rejectable or rejected. relatrix A female relator. relatum A term that is related to the referent. relevate Raise (a person’s) spirits or lighten (his) mood; relieve (someone of a mental or emotional burden). relicted Left uncovered, as land by recession of water religate To ligate again. religiophobia A fear or hatred of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organizations. reliquiae Remains, especially of fossil organisms. relucent shining with reflected light. reluctancy Resistance, opposition. reluctor A toothed ring or wheel that rotates past a variable reluctance sensor. remanation The act of returning; reabsorption. remanet A bill that has been postponed or deferred to another session. remeant Coming back; returning. rememorate To remember or recall remex A quill. remiform Shaped like an oar or paddle.