recussion

English

Etymology

From Latin recutire, recussum (“to beat back”), from re- (“re-”) + quatere (“to shake”).

Noun

recussion

1. The act of beating or striking back.
   • 1824 April, F. Place, “Account of the Earthquake in Chili, in November, 1822, from Observations made by several Englishmen residing in that Country”, in Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, volume 17, page 46:

     Neither the recussion, nor the retrocession of the sea, were as violent as might have been expected.

   • 1845, J.H. Ingraham, The Cruiser of the Mist, page 21:

     The brig reeled under the recussion of the simultaneous discharge of all her larboard guns, and her captain, leaning over the gun in the after port closely watched the effect upon the schooner, which, when last seen, was not half a mile distant.

   • 1904 May 28, Fritz Scwyzer, “The Construction of the Valvular Part of the Aorta and the Significance of its Elastic and Collagenous Tissue”, in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics, volume 79, number 22, page 1025:

     As soon as the heart relaxes, at the beginning of the diastole, the semilunar valves close, and the recussion of the blood causes the greatest pressure near the valves.

2. (law) The cancellation of all or part of a judgment.
   • 1826, Edward Irving, Babylon and Infidelity Foredoomed of God, page 174:

     Also, at the end of 30 years, over the 1260, or into the period of judgment, we are to expect, not a remarkable event, but some alteration in the course of judgment, some recussion or increase of it, or something worthy to be noted, which may perhaps discover itself in the course of our progress.

   • 1918, Louisiana. Legislature. Senate, Official Journal, page 170:

     providing that the Judge of the District Court having jurisdiction of the case shall grant the application fixing the amount and conditions of the bond precedent thereto, providing for the service of a copy of the petition, writs, and citation, fixing the return day, and making it obligatory upon the Justice of the Peace to send up to the District Court a certified copy of all minutes and entries on the Justice of the Peace Court Docket in the case together with all original filings, and a written statement of the Justice of the Peace setting forth his reasons for not granting the appeal, or allowing suit for recussion of judgment to be filed, and providing a penalty for the failure of the Justice of the Peace to do so;

   • 1920, Decennial Edition of the American Digest - Volume 14, page 241:

     A party in justice's court may remit a part of his demand so as to bring it within the jurisdiction of the justice, but the recussion must be absolute for all demands in excess of the jurisdiction, for "remission" implies forgiveness, and means a voluntary relinquishment of a claim or a part thereof by one capable of asserting it, and does not refer to the extinguishment of a debt by agreement of the parties , or by judgment of the court .

3. Misspelling of recursion.

Anagrams

• coinsures, insources