Recourse vs False - What's the difference?
recourse | false |
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
* Spenser
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
* (rfdate) Foxe:
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
* (Bishop Hacket)
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*: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.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(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.
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
- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- 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.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
- swift recourse of flushing blood
- Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
- Give me recourse to him.
Derived terms
* legal recourseVerb
(recours)- The flame departing and recoursing .
Anagrams
* resourcefalse
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}