recidive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin recidīvus; compare Middle French recidive. Doublet of recidivous.
Senses: examples: text: But the truth is, as I haue oft ſeene, that this forme doth nothing, ſaue onely hide the ſicknes, and appeaſe the dolors for a time, ſo that it is alwayes recidiue, and oſt times by the long and violent vſage heereof, the humors are rendred more drying, maling, and burned, of the which come miſerable ſimptoms, as I haue often ſeene.
ref: 1596, “To cure the Spanish disease by decoction of Gaiac, which is the first way”, in Peter Lowe, compiler, An Easie, Certaine, and Perfect Method, to Cure and Preuent the Spanish Sicknes. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, →OCLC, signature C3, verso:
text: [T]he evil humours remaining after a Criſe, are wont to make one recidive or relapſing; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] Macallo, “Part. II. To foresee the issue of the Disease.”, in W. S., editor, XCIX. Canons, or, Rules; Learnedly Describing an Excellent Method for Practitioners in Physick, London: […] J. Grismond, →OCLC, canon 29, page 75:
text: It was the second case of recidive calculus which I had operated on since my arrival in England; […]
ref: 1831 April 26, W. B. Costello, “On the Recurrence of Stone after the Operation of Lithotrity. Case Related by a Patient.”, in Thomas Wakley, editor, The Lancet. […], volume II, number 401, London: […] [F]or the editor, by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, […], published 7 May 1831, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173, column 2:
text: If any suspicion of recidive aldosteronism was present, patients were carefully reexamined by hormonal tests and computed tomography (CT).
ref: 1998 April, Jukka Sirén, Matti Välimäki, Kauko Huikuri, Arto Sivula, Petri Voutilainen, Reijo Haapiainen, “Adrenalectomy for Primary Aldosteronism: Long-term Follow-up Study in 29 Patients”, in World Journal of Surgery, volume 22, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 418:
glosses: Synonym of recidivous (“recurring”).
synonyms: word: recidivous
extra: recurring
examples: text: [H]is maieste had never remembred their precedent offenses nor imputed thesame^([sic]) to their charge, Being a prince most honorable obseruatour of his worde . But seing their cankred recidive hert he could no lesse doo then to suffre them to have his lawes . to thexemple of suche Ingrate and Irremediable obstinate hertes.
ref: 1537 June 16 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Cromwell, “Cromwell to Sir Thomas Wyatt”, in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, volume II (Letters from 1536, Notes, Index), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1902, →OCLC, “Letters” section, page 60:
text: He was, then, already a recidive offender when he came here for the first time, and he has been here 4, and not three times, as the press says.
ref: 1926 June 26, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, “Bartolomeo Vanzetti to EVD [Eugene Victor Debs]”, in J[ames] Robert Constantine, editor, Letters of Eugene V. Debs, volume 3 (1919–1926), Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, published 1990, →ISBN, page 587:
text: Charlemagne went further, punishing the recidive thief by death and providing that authors of crimes against good morals might, for the first offence, be handed over to the judgment of the bishop, and, if that did not suffice for their correction and their fault was grave, they should suffer confiscation of their allodial lands.
ref: 1928, Carlo Calisse, translated by Layton B[artol] Register, “Manner of Commission”, in A History of Italian Law, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, title I (The Crime), chapter II (Attending Circumstances), topic 1 (Aggravating Circumstances), pages 235–236:
glosses: Synonym of recidivous (“prone to relapse”).
synonyms: word: recidivous
extra: prone to relapse