Meaning

Synonym of recidivous (“recurring”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Synonym of recidivous (“recurring”).
2. Synonym of recidivous (“prone to relapse”).
3. Synonym of recidivation (“relapse”).
4. Synonym of recidivist (“one who falls back into prior habits”).
5. (intransitive) Synonym of recidivate (“to fall back into prior habits”).

Example Sentences

But the truth is, as I haue oft ſeene, that this forme doth nothing, ſaue onely hide the ſicknes, and appeaſe the dolors for a time, ſo that it is alwayes recidiue, and oſt times by the long and violent vſage heereof, the humors are rendred more drying, maling, and burned, of the which come miſerable ſimptoms, as I haue often ſeene.

[T]he evil humours remaining after a Criſe, are wont to make one recidive or relapſing; […]

It was the second case of recidive calculus which I had operated on since my arrival in England; […]

If any suspicion of recidive aldosteronism was present, patients were carefully reexamined by hormonal tests and computed tomography (CT).

[H]is maieste had never remembred their precedent offenses nor imputed thesame^([sic]) to their charge, Being a prince most honorable obseruatour of his worde . But seing their cankred recidive hert he could no lesse doo then to suffre them to have his lawes . to thexemple of suche Ingrate and Irremediable obstinate hertes.

He was, then, already a recidive offender when he came here for the first time, and he has been here 4, and not three times, as the press says.

Charlemagne went further, punishing the recidive thief by death and providing that authors of crimes against good morals might, for the first offence, be handed over to the judgment of the bishop, and, if that did not suffice for their correction and their fault was grave, they should suffer confiscation of their allodial lands.

Take alwaies heede to the forces of the ſick, & beware of that which is cauſe of all dolors and recidiues: that is, the number of the frictions, by reaſon that ſome giue ouer-few, fearing theſe accidents, and to the contrary, ſome others that gyue ouer-many, in ſuch ſort that I haue heard men vaunt themſelues, to haue rubbed the poore Patient 37. times.

Word Forms

• recidives
• recidiving
• recidived

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Use recidive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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