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Recur vs Sextan - What's the difference?

recur | sextan |

As a verb recur

is to have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.

As an adjective sextan is

(obsolete|medicine) that recurs on the sixth day.

As a noun sextan is

(obsolete|medicine) such a fever.

recur

English

Verb

(recurr)
  • To have recourse (to) someone or something for assistance, support etc.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 43:
  • *:She only replied with a laugh, and he evidently deemed futile the bid for sympathy on the score of religious or irreligious fellowship, for he recurred to it no more.
  • To happen again.
  • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
  • (computing) To recurse.
  • Derived terms

    * recurrent * recurrence

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    sextan

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete, medicine) That recurs on the sixth day
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, medicine) Such a fever
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