Definition of Reculing

1. recule [v] - See also: recule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reculing

rectus inferior
rectus lateralis
rectus medialis
rectus muscle of thigh
rectus superior
recubation
recuile
recuiled
recuiles
recuiling
recule
reculed
recules
reculing (current term)
recultivate
recultivated
recultivates
recultivating
recultivation
recumb
recumbed
recumbence
recumbencies
recumbency
recumbent
recumbently
recumbents
recumbing

Literary usage of Reculing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"... and sedulously working their way straight forward through the mud, until some real danger presented itself, and then reculing with equal adroitness. ..."

2. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1908)
"... for on the sea there is no reculing nor fleeing; there is no remedy but to fight and abide fortune, and every man to shew his prowess. ..."

3. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1908)
"... for on the sea there is no reculing nor fleeing ; there is no remedy but to fight and abide fortune, and every man to shew his -prowess. ..."

4. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1922)
"... for on the sea there is no reculing nor fleeing; there is no remedy but to fight and abide fortune, and every man to shew his prowess. ..."

5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"... the Pharisees in the Sanhedrim, sometimes thwarted by them, per- reculing the followers of Jesus because they preached the résurrection of the dead. ..."

6. The principal navigations voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"For their manner is when any will invade them, to allure and drawe them on by flying and reculing (as if they were ..."

7. A System of Instruction in Quantitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1876)
"The way in which the reculing-off is effected, is a matter of great importance in volumetric analysis; the first requisite is to bring the eye ..."

8. Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century: Comprising, the Treatise "Of by Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Jerome Horsey (1856)
"For their manner is when any will invade them, to allure and drawe them on by flying and reculing (as if they were ..."

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