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recess (medicine)


recess


1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. "Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality." (South) "My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered." (Eikon Basilike)

2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. "In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence." (Sir M. Hale) "Good verse recess and solitude requires." (Dryden)

3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. "The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks." (Macaulay)

4. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. "A bed which stood in a deep recess." (W. Irving)

5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. "Departure from his happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left." (Milton)

6. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

7. <botany> A sinus.

Origin: L. Recessus, fr. Recedere, recessum. See Recede.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Tompkins, Daniel D. (sh)




born June 21, 1774, Scarsdale, N.Y., U.S.
died June 11, 1825, Staten Island, N.Y.

U.S. politician.

He served on the state supreme court (1804-07). As governor (1807-17), he initiated Education and penal-code reforms and helped secure state legislation outlawing slavery. An opponent of banking interests, he blocked the chartering of a bank by calling an end to the legislature's session, the only such occurrence in New York history. He was twice elected vice president with Pres. James Monroe (1817-25).