Recourse
[rɪ'kɔːs] or ['rikɔrs]
Definition
(noun.) act of turning to for assistance; 'have recourse to the courts'; 'an appeal to his uncle was his last resort'.
(noun.) something or someone turned to for assistance or security; 'his only recourse was the police'; 'took refuge in lying'.
Editor: Vito--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.
(n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
(n.) Access; admittance.
(v. i.) To return; to recur.
(v. i.) To have recourse; to resort.
Inputed by Barbara
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Resort.
Inputed by Artie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reference, aid, application, betaking, refuge
ANT:Avoidance, independence, omission, abstinence, dispensation, disuse
Inputed by Giles
Definition
n. a going to for aid or protection: access.—v.i. to return.—adj. Recourse′ful returning.
Checker: Ronnie
Examples
- Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention? Plato. The Republic.
- It seemed almost axiomatic that for true knowledge we must have recourse to concepts coming from a reason above experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- If this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or, in less extreme cases, there is recourse to idle amusement; to anything which passes time with immediate agreeableness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In one group, it may be met by recourse to fisticuffs, in another by a challenge to a duel, in a third by an exhibition of contemptuous disregard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We assembled again towards evening, and Perdita insisted on our having recourse to music. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To the former they were compelled, though reluctantly, to have recourse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Recourse was had to the inventions of the ancients, from whom the paddle-wheel was taken, to find some other means of propulsion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was evident, from Mr. Trotter's flushed countenance and defective intonation, that he, too, had had recourse to vinous stimulus. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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