recuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Late Middle English recusen, from Old French recuser (modern French récuser (“to challenge; to impugn; (formal) to make an objection; (law) to recuse”), and from its etymon Latin recūsāre, the present active infinitive of recūsō (“to decline, refuse, reject; (law) to object to, protest”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’, denoting opposition or reversal) + causa (“cause, reason; (law) case, claim; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of rouse and possibly ruse.
Cognates
* Catalan recusar
* French récuser
* Italian ricusare
* Old Occitan recuzar
* Portuguese recusar
* Spanish recusar
Inflected forms:
form: recuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: recusest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: recusedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: recuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recuseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: recuse
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: recusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: often
reflexive
transitive
examples: And therfore, if ayenst this peticion any processe be made of any maner Juge spirituel or temporell, and soo the same John have wronge, thanne he provoketh and appelleth this cause directly to the rightwisness of god and to the liege lorde, ffor other juges in his matere he hath utterly suspecte, for greet wronges that he hath had, dreding to have more. He therfor hem utterly recuseth, and herto he fully him submitteth.
[T]he Quenys grace may alvvayes recuſe & appell at her good pleaſure & libertie, from vvhatſoever Decree or Sentence, either interlocutorie, or definitive, ſhe vvil: […]
gloss: To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: often
reflexive
transitive
examples: The judge recused herself from that case, citing a possible conflict of interest as one of the parties was a personal friend.
The revelation is almost certain to prompt calls for [Samuel] Alito, a member of the court’s conservative wing, to recuse himself from several high-profile cases pending before the court this year involving the election and subsequent attack on the US Capitol, including the blockbuster question of whether Trump may claim immunity from federal election subversion charges.
gloss: To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
often
reflexive
transitive
examples: The ſaid [Nicholas] Fiott, likevviſe, recuſeth James Pipon, eſq; [as being a judge in the cause] ſeeing, that he knovvs that the ſaid Fiott is the perſon vvho is the cauſe that the ſaid Pipon hath been ſued by rigour of lavv, before the council, in order to oblige him to do juſtice to the poor concerning the hoſpital.
gloss: To refuse (to do something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
often
reflexive
transitive
gloss: To dismiss (an appeal).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
often
rare
reflexive
transitive
examples: [N]otvvithſtanding that the ſaid Judges amply and ſufficiently declared, as vvell the ſincerity of their minds directly, juſtly to proceed vvithout favour, dread, affection, or partiality; […] yet ſhe nevertheleſs perſiſting in her former vvilfulneſs, and in her Appeal, vvhich alſo by the ſaid Judges vvas likevviſe recuſed: […]
gloss: Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The district attorney recused from the case because he used to work for the company which was the defendant.
Related words: accuse
cause
excuse
recusance
recusancy
recusant
recusation
recusative
recusator
recusatory
Derived words: recusable
recusal
recusancy
unrecuse
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: recusar
lang: Czech
word: odmítnout
lang: Dutch
word: wraken
lang: Finnish
word: jäävätä
lang: French
word: récuser
lang: German
word: wegen Befangenheit ablehnen
lang: Greek
word: εξαιρώ
roman: exairó
lang: Hungarian
word: rekuzál
lang: Macedonian
word: се по́влече
roman: se póvleče
lang: Russian
word: отводи́ть
roman: otvodítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: recusar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 迴避 /回避
roman: huíbì
lang: Dutch
word: recuseren
lang: Finnish
word: jäävätä itsensä
lang: Finnish
word: jääviytyä
lang: French
word: récuser
lang: German
word: sich für befangen erklären
lang: Greek
word: αυτοεξαιρούμαι
roman: aftoexairoúmai
lang: Persian
word: رفع صلاحیت کردن
roman: raf'-e salâhiyat kardan
lang: Russian
word: отводиться
roman: otvoditʹsja
lang: Russian
word: отка́зываться от участия
roman: ot
lang: Spanish
word: recusarse
lang: Swedish
word: jäva ut sig
lang: Finnish
word: jääviytyä