recie.html - n.
a person who relapses into crime.

recidivism n. recidivistic adj. [F r

cidiviste f. r

cidiver f. med.L recidivare f. L recidivus f. recidere (as RE-, cadere fall)]

recie.html - n.
1 a statement of the ingredients and procedure required for preparing cooked food.
2 an expedient; a device for achieving something.
3 a medical prescription. [2nd sing. imper. (as used in prescriptions) of L recipere take, RECEIVE]

recie.html - n. & adj.
--n.

a person who receives something.

--adj.

1 receiving.
2 receptive.

recipiency n. [F r÷cipient f. It. recipiente or L recipiens f. recipere RECEIVE]

recie.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 in return (offered a reciprocal greeting).
2 mutual (their feelings are reciprocal).
3 Gram. (of a pronoun) expressing mutual action or relation (as in each other).
4 inversely correspondent; complementary (natural kindness matched by a reciprocal severity).

--n.

Math. an expression or function so related to another that their product is unity (л is the reciprocal of 2).

reciprocality n. reciprocally adv. [L reciprocus ult. f. re- back + pro forward]

recie.html - v.
1 tr. return or requite (affection etc.).
2 intr. (foll. by with) offer or give something in return (reciprocated with an invitation to lunch).
3 tr. give and receive mutually; interchange.
4 a intr. (of a part of a machine) move backwards and forwards. b tr. cause to do this.

reciprocating engine an engine using a piston or pistons moving up and down in cylinders.

reciprocation n. reciprocator n. [L reciprocare reciprocat- (as RECIPROCAL)]

recie.html - n.
1 the condition of being reciprocal.
2 mutual action.
3 give and take, esp. the interchange of privileges between countries and organizations. [F r

ciprocit

f. r

ciproque f. L reciprocus (as RECIPROCATE)]