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▪ I. recent, a.|ˈriːsənt|
[ad. L. recent-, recens, or a. F. récent (16th c.). App. first in Sc. use.]
1. Lately done or made; that has lately happened or taken place, etc.
1533Bellenden Livy i. Prol. (S.T.S.) 8, I dout nocht bot the beginnyng of Romanis..sall be of les pleser to þe redaris þan recent historyis, becaus þai will haisty þame self to here þir novellis and recent dedis done in our dais. 1572Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. II. 131 The persoun being apprehendit in the recent deid salbe deliverit in the handis of the Provest Marschell. 1574–5Ibid. 437 For na recent crymes committit be thame. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 161 Recent translations I have seen of it in French. 1748Anson's Voy. i. v. 51 The discovery of these valuable stones is much more recent than that of gold. 1821J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. (1871) 150 The recent coinage of dimes..alluded to in our public journals. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. i. viii, The bright drops of a recent shower sparkled upon the buds of the lilac. 1966Listener 29 Sept. 479/2 Gerhard's Op. 1..its beauty [is] marred only by a lack of variety and a tendency to go on too long. Nearly fifty years more recent, the Duo Concertante for violin and piano shows neither quality. 1976Encounter June 72/2 Professor Daiches' method, then, consists partly of summarising the results of recent research on the ancient Near East, and partly of commentary on the Pentateuch. 1976Daily Tel. 20 July 1/1 The four countries had agreed on the ban during their recent economic summit in Puerto Rico.
2. a. Lately formed, created, originated, or begun; † new-born.
a1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. 117 How dangerous it is to neglect the consulting the..Chirurgeon while the Disease is recent. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 776 We have made it unquestionably Evident, that this Opinion..is no Novel or Recent thing. c1709Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 22 She sought a neighbouring spring To wash the recent babe. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxvii, Gay plains extend where marshes slept before; O'er recent meads th' exulting streamlets fly. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix. V. 147 Lorraine and Arles, two recent and transitory kingdoms. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 217 Erasmus..seems to have had the then recent system of Murner in his eye. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 502 We found recent lymph becoming organised.
b. Fresh; not yet affected by decay, decomposition, or loss of moisture.
1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry ii. i, The old man's virtues [are] So recent in him as the world may swear Nought but a fair tree could such fair fruit bear. 1759B. Stillingfleet tr. Improv. Physic in Misc. Tracts (1762) 221 The recent root of the rose-wort is vastly superior to the dry in head-achs. 1808Barclay Muscular Motions 477 A cursory inspection of a recent eye is sufficient at any time to prove the contrary. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 903 The odour [of essential oils] is seldom as pleasant as that of the recent plant. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 134/2 If not set when either moist or recent, they [sc. beetles' legs] may be softened by being placed for a night in any small vessel containing a layer of wet sand.
c. poet. Lately or freshly come or arrived from a place.
1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 382 Shall I not think that..All heav'n beholds me recent from thy arms? 1759Gibbon Autobiog. (1896) 207 Recent from Paris, I assisted with pleasure at the representation of several tragedies. 1820J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (ed. 2) 73 Here Caesar, recent from barbaric wars, Leads Rome in chains. 1864Swinburne Atalanta 1260 Recent from the roar of foreign foam.
3. a. Belonging to a (past) period of time comparatively near to the present. (Opposed to ancient † or antique.)
1622Bacon Hen. VII, 35 Though it be an action of so recent memorie. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. To Rdr., Upon perusal of several Scholastick Writers, (especially the recenter). 1699Bentley Phal. 400 The Sense of some of them occurs there, but express'd in a more recent way. 1730Martin in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 453 Garangeot..who is one of the recentest Writers. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Emp. China & Tsing-Ti Wks. 1853 II. 148/1 The older creation of the nobility..is more ill-constructed and ill-favoured than the recenter. 1876Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 12 The Egyptian belongs after all to the more recent race of men.
b. Geol. Of or pertaining to the present geological epoch. (Cf. 4 b.)
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 95 Murex cornutus, fossil at Asti, is now only known recent in warmer latitudes. 1833Ibid. III. 60 In the Pliocene we find an intermixture of extinct and recent species of quadrupeds. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 457 These remains differ in no appreciable respect..from those of the recent bison of the Plains.
4. a. Of a point or period of time: Not much earlier than the present; not long past.
1823Edin. Rev. Oct. 109 Up to a very recent period. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. 425 The celebrity of the Marattas was reserved for recent times. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xii. 120 Of such a character as to indicate for them a tolerably recent date.
b. (With capital initial.) Geol. Applied to the later portion of the Quaternary or Post-Pliocene period. Also = Holocene a.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 343 During the newer Pliocene epoch, partly, perhaps, in the Recent. 1882A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 883 Above them [sc. glacial deposits] lie younger accumulations such as river-alluvia, peat-mosses, lake-bottoms,..raised lacustrine and marine terraces, which, merging insensibly into those of the present day, are termed Recent or Prehistoric. 1927[see Holocene a.]. 1959J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. ii. 49 A..method of correlating the succession of events in Africa with those in Europe during the Pleistocene and early Recent times. 1975Nature 20 Mar. 209/2 Sterols..have been identified in Recent and ancient sediments.
▪ II. recent
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