Vocabulary : Recusant to Redacteur

Recusant : Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord. ;; One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. ;; A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. ;; One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Recusation : Refusal. ;; The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.
Recusative : Refusing; denying; negative.
Recuse : To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
Recussion : The act of beating or striking back.

Red : . imp. & p. p. of Read. ;; To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house. ;; Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. ;; The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these. ;; A red pigment. ;; An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a. ;; The menses.
Red Cross : The crusaders or the cause they represented. ;; A hospital or ambulance service established as a result of, though not provided for by, the Geneva convention of 1864; any of the national societies for alleviating the sufferings of the sick and wounded war, also giving aid and relief during great calamities; also, a member or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.
Red dog : Alt. of Red-dog flour
Redact : To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
Redacteur : See Redactor.

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