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Recure vs Recuse - What's the difference?

recure | recuse |

As verbs the difference between recure and recuse

is that recure is (obsolete) to cure, heal while recuse is .

As a noun recure

is (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery.

recure

English

Verb

(recur)
  • (obsolete) To cure, heal.
  • * Lydgate
  • No medicine might avail his sickness to recure .
  • (obsolete) To restore (something) to a good condition.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.v:
  • *:Phoebus pure / In westerne waues his wearie wagon did recure .
  • (obsolete) To recover, regain (something that had been lost).
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:By this he had sweet life recur'd agayne [...].
  • To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
  • (Lydgate)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) cure; remedy; recovery
  • * Fairfax
  • But whom he hite, without recure he dies.

    recuse

    English

    Verb

    (recus)
  • To refuse or reject (a judge ); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified to act.
  • The judge recused herself from that case, citing a possible conflict of interest.
  • (of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified to act.
  • The judge recused from the case, citing a possible conflict of interest.

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