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  • verb Present participle of recourse.

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Examples

  • 'For the Poet thrusteth into the midst, even where it most concerneth him, and then recoursing to the things fore-past, and _divining of things to come_, he maketh a pleasing _analysis_ of ALL.'

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835

  • For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.

    Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

  • However the dropout rate overall is currently running at about 20% after taking into account recoursing - basically people who are not up to it (especially the loaded march) tend to self select themselves out of the TA - frankly the physical side of Recruit Selection is not demanding enough for the physical side of TSC (A)

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • However the dropout rate overall is currently running at about 20% after taking into account recoursing - basically people who are not up to it (especially the loaded march) tend to self select themselves out of the TA - frankly the physical side of Recruit Selection is not demanding enough for the physical side of TSC (A)

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • However the dropout rate overall is currently running at about 20% after taking into account recoursing - basically people who are not up to it (especially the loaded march) tend to self select themselves out of the TA - frankly the physical side of Recruit Selection is not demanding enough for the physical side of TSC (A)

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • However the dropout rate overall is currently running at about 20% after taking into account recoursing - basically people who are not up to it (especially the loaded march) tend to self select themselves out of the TA - frankly the physical side of Recruit Selection is not demanding enough for the physical side of TSC (A)

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Poetica_ 148-9)] 143 and there, recoursing to the things forepassed, and divining recoursing > returning forepassed > [which have already happened] 144 of things to come, makes a pleasing analysis of all.

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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