recusare

The ancient verb, from the Latin recusare, “to reject,” is listed in the OED as “rare,” in an entry written a century ago.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

The ancient verb, from the Latin recusare, “to reject,” is listed in the OED as “rare,” in an entry written a century ago.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

= At _Tr_ V iv 15-16 Ovid had used _frena recusare_ of a horse: 'fert tamen, ut debet, casus patienter amaros,/more nec indomiti _frena recusat_ equi'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Récipissé: récépissé (French), receipt. recontrieren: rencontrer (French), to meet. recusiert: recusare (Latin), refused. red: Rede, speech.

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

‘To refuse’ is ‘recusare’, while yet it has derived the ‘f’ of its second syllable from ‘refutare’; it is a medley of the two {265}.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Notion of the _Italian_; for, said she, it grows upon one when one once comes to know a little of the Language; and pray, Mr. _Meggot_, sing again those Notes, _Nihil Imperanti negare, nihil recusare_.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700