recalcitrate
Americanverb (used without object)
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Etymology
Origin of recalcitrate
1615–25; < Latin recalcitrātus, past participle of recalcitrāre; see recalcitrant, -ate 1
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While in Europe the same classes sometimes recalcitrate even against the supreme power, the American submits without a murmur to the authority of the pettiest magistrate.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
And the West is kicking, kicking with both feet, kicking like a bay steer who has a kick coming and knows how to recalcitrate.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
Wherefore recalcitrate against that will, From which the end can never be cut off, And which has many times increased your pain?
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Here, dear Christopher, I recalcitrate, and decline printing the rest of the sentence; but as to "Things in General"—I am somewhat smitten with the suggestion.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
He braced his feet and stood his ground, and made the wise men wait, While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke
The people in some places recalcitrated violently; but the Jesuits and Ultramontanes triumphed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
Still there remained a considerable number both of heretic Brethren of the Free Spirit and of orthodox Beghards of both sexes who recalcitrated of being thus brought under rule and deprived of their accustomed independence.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
August made no moaning or recalcitrating; took, on the prescribed terms, the inevitable that had come.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
Again and again, as the magnitude of the task became manifest, we find him doubting, hesitating, recalcitrating, and yet captive.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
Instead of ready-money, there is nothing but rebellious debating and recalcitrating.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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