Definition of recede

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Recede (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition..

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Sirrah :: Sirrah (n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural..
Precedence :: Precedence (n.) Alt. of Precedenc.
Prejudication :: Prejudication (n.) A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent.
Precedency :: Precedency (n.) The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another..
Mobocracy :: Mobocracy (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights..
Precedent :: Precedent (n.) A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
Antenumber :: Antenumber (n.) A number that precedes another.
Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) Especially, the name of any person, written with his own hand, employed to signify that the writing which precedes accords with his wishes or intentions; a sign manual; an autograph..
Deprive :: Deprive (v. t.) To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of..
Day :: Day (n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc..
Precedency :: Precedency (n.) The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners..
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage..
Preference :: Preference (n.) The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference..
Antecommunion :: Antecommunion (n.) A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements..
Forehand :: Forehand (n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
Offskip :: Offskip (n.) That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun..
Original :: Original (n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc..
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