recusantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛkjᵿz(ə)nt/, U.S.

/rəˈkjuznt/

Forms: 1500s recusaunte, 1500s–1600s recusante, 1500s– recusant.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin recusant-, recusans.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin recusant-, recusans refuser (1452 in a British source), person who refuses to attend the services of the Church of England (1589, 1593, 1605 in British sources) < classical Latin recūsant- , recūsāns , present participle of recūsāre recuse v. With sense A. 2 compare slightly earlier recusancy n. 2.

A. n.

a. A person who refuses to submit to an authority or comply with a command or regulation.The context of quot. 1552-3 deals with non-compliance in the rendering of tithes.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > recusancy > [noun] > person

recusant1552

refusant1581

refuser1610

1552–3 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 4 §2 The Certificate of Recusauntes made by any of the said Archebyshoppes.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Recusant, he that refuseth to doe any thing.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) ii. i. 16 Since ye are so angry, And hold your Sister such a strong Recusant [etc.].

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 113 This Law did not presently find an universall Obedience in all the Land. And the Wonder is not great, if at the first making thereof it met with many Recusants.

1725 J. Stevens Royal Treasury of Eng. 180 The Recusants, whether from Disobedience or Disability, are threaten'd with Convention before the Council, Imprisonment, or Confiscation of Goods.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 13 That the Americans are able to bear taxation is indubitable... Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recusants.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 74 All studded round..With loyal Students, faithful to their books, Half-and-half Idlers, hardy Recusants, And honest Dunces.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 521 Some refused compliance with the tariff. The recusants were adjudged to be in the wrong.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 740 Dealing with the dominions of the recusant as being..a forfeited fief.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Oct. (Comment section) 29 If such a text could be agreed at Annapolis, it would have great meaning (even for the recusants of Hamas, who have..never challenged Abbas's right to negotiate on the Palestinians' behalf).

†b. A person who refuses or dissents from something. With against, of, to. Obsolete.In quot. 1599 with allusion to sense A. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > disobedient person

disobedientiary1537

disobeisant1542

disobedient1548

inobedient1548

recusant1599

disobeyerc1600

flint1765

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > non-compliance > one who refuses to comply

recusant1599

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner To Rdrs. sig. Aa They are true Catholiques in matter of Dyet: no Recusants of any thing that is mans meate.

1638 D. Featley Transubstant. Exploded 7 They are no lesse Recusants to your authority, then to our lawes.

1661 B. Holyday Against Disloyalty 23 All that are recusants of holy rites.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 35 All being recusants of the recent peace.

1879 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 293 All ill-conditioned recusants against the decrees of the local senate should be mulcted in heavy damages.

a. A person, esp. a Roman Catholic, who refuses to attend the services of the Church of England. Also occasionally in extended use. Now historical.The Act of Uniformity of 1558 first imposed fines on all non-attenders of a parish church, but Roman Catholics were the specific target of the Act against Popish Recusants of 1592; subsequent acts through the 17th cent. imposed heavy penalties on Catholic recusants, the exaction of which persisted up to the Second Relief Act of 1791. Recusancy amongst Catholics was not common until 1570, when the papal bull ‘Regnans in Excelsis’ excommunicated Elizabeth I.In historical use, recusant is occasionally used to refer to Catholics before 1558 who refused the Oath of Supremacy. sectary recusant: a Protestant or other non-Catholic recusant.

ΚΠ

1581 A. Munday True Rep. Successe Eng. Souldiours in Ireland To Rdr. sig. A ii^v This happy newes should be knowen vnto all (aswell to the true religious and obedient subiect, for his comfort, as to the supersticious disloyall recusant, for his vtter dismaying and confusion).

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 182 In my opinion our recusantes, as wee call them, that is our refusing Papists to come to Church, doe greatly offende.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. E. van Meteren in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 595 The principall catholique Recusants..were sent to remaine at certaine conuenient places.

1606 Act 3 Jas. c. v. ⁋18 Euery..Popish Recusant conuict..shall..be vtterly disabled to..collate or nominate to any Free-schoole, Hospitall, or Donatiue whatsoeuer.

1622 W. Laud Art. First Visitation St. David's in Wks. (1853) V. 389 Whether any of the said popish or other sectary recusants, do labour to seduce and draw others from the religion now established?

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 32 Though all our Recusants be the King of Englands subjects, yet too many of them be the King of Spaines servants.

1640 Wits Recreations sig. E5 Sith our Church him disciplin'd so sore, He (rank Recusant) comes to Church no more.

1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 540 [They] would not promise his Majestie their consent to the repealing the Test, & penal statutes against the Romish recusants.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §78 363 To present all Recusants, whereof the legal Definition was the not coming to Church for a Month.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 57 A short summary of the laws against the papists, under their three several classes, of persons professing the popish religion, popish recusants convict, and popish priests.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft viii. 248 It appears that this remote county was full of Popish recusants.

1866 Galaxy 15 Nov. 574 If one might hazard the question, can anybody tell who Fashion is, that she may lay down the laws of dress and excommunicate any recusant?

1881 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (1882) I. ii. 46 Many Papists who had conformed to the authority of the English Church..fell away, and became recusants.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ix. 150 Montrose the recusant continued to win battles and was even now marching southward with his savage Irishry to strike at the citadel.

1998 J. Rowe in N. Tyacke England's Long Reformation 1500–1800 176 Similarly, local clusters of sectary recusants, often more specifically categorized as Brownists or Anabaptists, can be identified as earlier non-attenders.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Feb. 23 Andrew's forebears also included many recusants, English men and women who had remained staunchly Catholic in the face of persecution.

b. More generally: a religious dissenter.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person

recusant1581

disagreer1605

unconformitant1605

nonconformist1618

non-conformer1622

nonconformitan1622

nonconformitantc1630

inconformist1633

dissenter1639

unconformist1640

fanatic1644

non-conformant1654

withdrawer1677

non-consenter1680

non-con1681

meeting-house man1711

shit-sack1769

dissident1790

meetinger1802

chapel-goer1842

speckle-belly1874

1581 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Popish Disc. f. 55^v But the Protestants themselues (saith he) are recusants also in other countries. Yea & very good cause why they should, seing they ought to absteyne from idolatry & superstition which is committed dayly in the popish churches.

a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 616 Protestant recusants in other countries, are not allowed by Papists, to alleadge their conscience for their refusall, but are compelled either to conforme themselues, or to vndergoe cruell torments.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xviii. 130 By which the recusants were banished from the Netherlands.

1779 R. Griffith tr. Voltaire Age of Louis XIV I. xiv. 176 The policy of Louis made him persecute the Protestants in France, thinking that he ought to put it out of their power to hurt him, at the same time that it led him to protect, clandestinely, the recusants and rebels of Hungary.

1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Churches (1869) iv. 143 It is impossible at this distance of time..to judge how far the recusants were influenced by an attachment to the positive doctrine of Arius.

1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 121 Five of the recusants took away their hassocks..and worshipped with us no more.

2006 Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 5 Dec. 8 A number of Quakers and recusants (non conformists).

B. adj.

1. Refusing to attend the parish church; dissenting in religion; of or relating to religious dissent, esp. of Roman Catholics from the Church of England. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > recusancy > [adjective] > recusancy

refusant1577

recusant1590

1590 H. Barrow in Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. sig. Ciiii The recusant papists are not instructed of you, th'other papists are both instructed, and they & their seede admitted vnto the sacrament.

1599 R. Parsons Temperate Ward-word 73 These recusant Catholiques.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. x. i. 892/1 Catesby likewise tooke in Ambrose Rookewood and Iohn Grant two Recusant Gentlemen.

1642 King Charles I Declar. 12 Aug. in Wks. (1662) II. 152 Concurrence was desperate by reason of the Prevalency of the Bishops and of the Recusant Lords.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 318 The Major part, albeit the Bishops, and all the Recusant Lords were driven from thence, still opposed them.

1781 ‘Protestant Gentleman’ Dispassionate Enq. Cause of Late Riots in London 28 Every recusant convict..was ordered to depart ten miles from London.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xiii. 226 Do you know that your recusant bishops wanted to consecrate him Bishop of Southampton?

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 332 In one instance, where they had failed to bring a recusant clergyman to reason, he rates them in this petulant manner.

1922 Eng. Hist. Rev. 37 146 Perhaps they combine some church-going with some venturesome hearing of mass in secret or some harbouring of a recusant priest.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. vii. 179 I would not venture to characterize Shakespeare's sensibility as being either Protestant or recusant Catholic.

2. gen. Refusing to acknowledge authority or to comply with a command or regulation. Also in predicative use.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > disobedient

unhersomeOE

inobedient1377

disobeisantc1381

unobeisanta1382

inobeisant1382

unobedientc1384

disobeyant1422

unobeishinga1425

unobeying?c1425

disobedient1535

recusant1593

inobsequent1604

disobeying1649

disobservant1672

1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 30 Loe then to Court, vnto my king I came, Monarke aspect of my recusant eye: Myne eye, the matter of my bodies shame, As long as shame, or sinne were nurst thereby.

a1658 B. Rudyerd Prince d'amour (1660) 30 To set all unruly Lovers in the Stocks, and Recusant Ladyes on the Rack.

1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1738) I. 554 The earnest expression of God's Displeasure on those Recusant Jews.

1710 Brit. Apollo 3–5 May A Future Bride, but yet under her First Courtship, and at first Opposite, Recusant and Tergiversant.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 115 Frieze jacket wants to dance with stammel-waistcoat, but she is coy and recusant.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 204 Master Sims tried his best coaxing and his best double X on the recusant players.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxiii. 305 The subjugation of the recusant Medes.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 3 Though the peace was sworn,..the most powerful members of the Spartan confederacy remained all recusant.

1897 F. R. Statham S. Afr. as It Is 285 A considerable number of British subjects resident in the Transvaal were ‘commandeered’ for service in the field against one Malaboch, a recusant native chief.

1920 Columbia Law Rev. 20 884 If the carrier had discharged his recusant employees, the whole line would have been tied up.

2006 Observer (Nexis) 2 July (Review section) 2 While we in the West have been busy herding recusant smokers into their own mephitic enclaves, the tobacco giants are finding ready markets elsewhere.

†3. That makes a recusation. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [adjective] > objection to judge

recusatory1529

recusator1561

recusant1726

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 453 If the Party Recusant has any Cause himself depending with the Judge, in the Judges private Capacity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	recusant
释义	recusantn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɛkjᵿz(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈkjuznt/ Forms: 1500s recusaunte, 1500s–1600s recusante, 1500s– recusant. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin recusant-, recusans. Etymology: < post-classical Latin recusant-, recusans refuser (1452 in a British source), person who refuses to attend the services of the Church of England (1589, 1593, 1605 in British sources) < classical Latin recūsant- , recūsāns , present participle of recūsāre recuse v. With sense A. 2 compare slightly earlier recusancy n. 2. A. n. 1. a. A person who refuses to submit to an authority or comply with a command or regulation.The context of quot. 1552-3 deals with non-compliance in the rendering of tithes. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > recusancy > [noun] > person recusant1552 refusant1581 refuser1610 1552–3 Act 7 Edw. VI c. 4 §2 The Certificate of Recusauntes made by any of the said Archebyshoppes. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Recusant, he that refuseth to doe any thing. a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) ii. i. 16 Since ye are so angry, And hold your Sister such a strong Recusant [etc.]. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 113 This Law did not presently find an universall Obedience in all the Land. And the Wonder is not great, if at the first making thereof it met with many Recusants. 1725 J. Stevens Royal Treasury of Eng. 180 The Recusants, whether from Disobedience or Disability, are threaten'd with Convention before the Council, Imprisonment, or Confiscation of Goods. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 13 That the Americans are able to bear taxation is indubitable... Let us examine our own claim, and the objections of the recusants. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iii. 74 All studded round..With loyal Students, faithful to their books, Half-and-half Idlers, hardy Recusants, And honest Dunces. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 521 Some refused compliance with the tariff. The recusants were adjudged to be in the wrong. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 740 Dealing with the dominions of the recusant as being..a forfeited fief. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Oct. (Comment section) 29 If such a text could be agreed at Annapolis, it would have great meaning (even for the recusants of Hamas, who have..never challenged Abbas's right to negotiate on the Palestinians' behalf). †b. A person who refuses or dissents from something. With against, of, to. Obsolete.In quot. 1599 with allusion to sense A. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > disobedient person disobedientiary1537 disobeisant1542 disobedient1548 inobedient1548 recusant1599 disobeyerc1600 flint1765 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > non-compliance > one who refuses to comply recusant1599 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner To Rdrs. sig. Aa They are true Catholiques in matter of Dyet: no Recusants of any thing that is mans meate. 1638 D. Featley Transubstant. Exploded 7 They are no lesse Recusants to your authority, then to our lawes. 1661 B. Holyday Against Disloyalty 23 All that are recusants of holy rites. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 35 All being recusants of the recent peace. 1879 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 293 All ill-conditioned recusants against the decrees of the local senate should be mulcted in heavy damages. 2. a. A person, esp. a Roman Catholic, who refuses to attend the services of the Church of England. Also occasionally in extended use. Now historical.The Act of Uniformity of 1558 first imposed fines on all non-attenders of a parish church, but Roman Catholics were the specific target of the Act against Popish Recusants of 1592; subsequent acts through the 17th cent. imposed heavy penalties on Catholic recusants, the exaction of which persisted up to the Second Relief Act of 1791. Recusancy amongst Catholics was not common until 1570, when the papal bull ‘Regnans in Excelsis’ excommunicated Elizabeth I.In historical use, recusant is occasionally used to refer to Catholics before 1558 who refused the Oath of Supremacy. sectary recusant: a Protestant or other non-Catholic recusant. ΚΠ 1581 A. Munday True Rep. Successe Eng. Souldiours in Ireland To Rdr. sig. A ii^v This happy newes should be knowen vnto all (aswell to the true religious and obedient subiect, for his comfort, as to the supersticious disloyall recusant, for his vtter dismaying and confusion). 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 182 In my opinion our recusantes, as wee call them, that is our refusing Papists to come to Church, doe greatly offende. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. E. van Meteren in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 595 The principall catholique Recusants..were sent to remaine at certaine conuenient places. 1606 Act 3 Jas. c. v. ⁋18 Euery..Popish Recusant conuict..shall..be vtterly disabled to..collate or nominate to any Free-schoole, Hospitall, or Donatiue whatsoeuer. 1622 W. Laud Art. First Visitation St. David's in Wks. (1853) V. 389 Whether any of the said popish or other sectary recusants, do labour to seduce and draw others from the religion now established? 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 32 Though all our Recusants be the King of Englands subjects, yet too many of them be the King of Spaines servants. 1640 Wits Recreations sig. E5 Sith our Church him disciplin'd so sore, He (rank Recusant) comes to Church no more. 1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 540 [They] would not promise his Majestie their consent to the repealing the Test, & penal statutes against the Romish recusants. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §78 363 To present all Recusants, whereof the legal Definition was the not coming to Church for a Month. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 57 A short summary of the laws against the papists, under their three several classes, of persons professing the popish religion, popish recusants convict, and popish priests. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft viii. 248 It appears that this remote county was full of Popish recusants. 1866 Galaxy 15 Nov. 574 If one might hazard the question, can anybody tell who Fashion is, that she may lay down the laws of dress and excommunicate any recusant? 1881 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (1882) I. ii. 46 Many Papists who had conformed to the authority of the English Church..fell away, and became recusants. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ix. 150 Montrose the recusant continued to win battles and was even now marching southward with his savage Irishry to strike at the citadel. 1998 J. Rowe in N. Tyacke England's Long Reformation 1500–1800 176 Similarly, local clusters of sectary recusants, often more specifically categorized as Brownists or Anabaptists, can be identified as earlier non-attenders. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 Feb. 23 Andrew's forebears also included many recusants, English men and women who had remained staunchly Catholic in the face of persecution. b. More generally: a religious dissenter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > [noun] > person recusant1581 disagreer1605 unconformitant1605 nonconformist1618 non-conformer1622 nonconformitan1622 nonconformitantc1630 inconformist1633 dissenter1639 unconformist1640 fanatic1644 non-conformant1654 withdrawer1677 non-consenter1680 non-con1681 meeting-house man1711 shit-sack1769 dissident1790 meetinger1802 chapel-goer1842 speckle-belly1874 1581 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Popish Disc. f. 55^v But the Protestants themselues (saith he) are recusants also in other countries. Yea & very good cause why they should, seing they ought to absteyne from idolatry & superstition which is committed dayly in the popish churches. a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 616 Protestant recusants in other countries, are not allowed by Papists, to alleadge their conscience for their refusall, but are compelled either to conforme themselues, or to vndergoe cruell torments. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xviii. 130 By which the recusants were banished from the Netherlands. 1779 R. Griffith tr. Voltaire Age of Louis XIV I. xiv. 176 The policy of Louis made him persecute the Protestants in France, thinking that he ought to put it out of their power to hurt him, at the same time that it led him to protect, clandestinely, the recusants and rebels of Hungary. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Churches (1869) iv. 143 It is impossible at this distance of time..to judge how far the recusants were influenced by an attachment to the positive doctrine of Arius. 1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 121 Five of the recusants took away their hassocks..and worshipped with us no more. 2006 Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph (Nexis) 5 Dec. 8 A number of Quakers and recusants (non conformists). B. adj. 1. Refusing to attend the parish church; dissenting in religion; of or relating to religious dissent, esp. of Roman Catholics from the Church of England. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > nonconformity > recusancy > [adjective] > recusancy refusant1577 recusant1590 1590 H. Barrow in Coll. Certain Lett. & Conf. sig. Ciiii The recusant papists are not instructed of you, th'other papists are both instructed, and they & their seede admitted vnto the sacrament. 1599 R. Parsons Temperate Ward-word 73 These recusant Catholiques. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. x. i. 892/1 Catesby likewise tooke in Ambrose Rookewood and Iohn Grant two Recusant Gentlemen. 1642 King Charles I Declar. 12 Aug. in Wks. (1662) II. 152 Concurrence was desperate by reason of the Prevalency of the Bishops and of the Recusant Lords. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 318 The Major part, albeit the Bishops, and all the Recusant Lords were driven from thence, still opposed them. 1781 ‘Protestant Gentleman’ Dispassionate Enq. Cause of Late Riots in London 28 Every recusant convict..was ordered to depart ten miles from London. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. xiii. 226 Do you know that your recusant bishops wanted to consecrate him Bishop of Southampton? 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvi. 332 In one instance, where they had failed to bring a recusant clergyman to reason, he rates them in this petulant manner. 1922 Eng. Hist. Rev. 37 146 Perhaps they combine some church-going with some venturesome hearing of mass in secret or some harbouring of a recusant priest. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon ii. vii. 179 I would not venture to characterize Shakespeare's sensibility as being either Protestant or recusant Catholic. 2. gen. Refusing to acknowledge authority or to comply with a command or regulation. Also in predicative use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > disobedient unhersomeOE inobedient1377 disobeisantc1381 unobeisanta1382 inobeisant1382 unobedientc1384 disobeyant1422 unobeishinga1425 unobeying?c1425 disobedient1535 recusant1593 inobsequent1604 disobeying1649 disobservant1672 1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 30 Loe then to Court, vnto my king I came, Monarke aspect of my recusant eye: Myne eye, the matter of my bodies shame, As long as shame, or sinne were nurst thereby. a1658 B. Rudyerd Prince d'amour (1660) 30 To set all unruly Lovers in the Stocks, and Recusant Ladyes on the Rack. 1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1738) I. 554 The earnest expression of God's Displeasure on those Recusant Jews. 1710 Brit. Apollo 3–5 May A Future Bride, but yet under her First Courtship, and at first Opposite, Recusant and Tergiversant. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 115 Frieze jacket wants to dance with stammel-waistcoat, but she is coy and recusant. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 204 Master Sims tried his best coaxing and his best double X on the recusant players. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxiii. 305 The subjugation of the recusant Medes. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lv. 3 Though the peace was sworn,..the most powerful members of the Spartan confederacy remained all recusant. 1897 F. R. Statham S. Afr. as It Is 285 A considerable number of British subjects resident in the Transvaal were ‘commandeered’ for service in the field against one Malaboch, a recusant native chief. 1920 Columbia Law Rev. 20 884 If the carrier had discharged his recusant employees, the whole line would have been tied up. 2006 Observer (Nexis) 2 July (Review section) 2 While we in the West have been busy herding recusant smokers into their own mephitic enclaves, the tobacco giants are finding ready markets elsewhere. †3. That makes a recusation. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [adjective] > objection to judge recusatory1529 recusator1561 recusant1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 453 If the Party Recusant has any Cause himself depending with the Judge, in the Judges private Capacity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1552
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