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recourses | recoursed |

As a noun recourses

is plural of lang=en.

As a verb recoursed is

past tense of recourse.

recourses

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    *

    recoursed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recourse)

    • 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

    Related terms

    * recur

    Verb

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

    • Anagrams

    * resource