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recourse | false |

As a noun recourse

is the act of seeking assistance or advice.

As a verb recourse

is (obsolete) to return; to recur.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

recourse

English

Noun

  • The act of seeking assistance or advice.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
  • * Dryden
  • Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
  • Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
  • * 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
  • Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
  • (obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
  • * Spenser
  • swift recourse of flushing blood
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
  • (obsolete) Access; admittance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Give me recourse to him.

    Derived terms

    * legal recourse

    Verb

    (recours)
  • (obsolete) To return; to recur.
  • * (rfdate) Foxe:
  • The flame departing and recoursing .
  • (obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
  • * (Bishop Hacket)
  • Anagrams

    * resource

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

    Anagrams

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