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• RECESS (Lat. recessus, a going back, withdrawal, from recedere, to withdraw)

RECESS (See also:

• LAT

Lat. recessus, a going back, withdrawal, from recedere, to withdraw)  , a See also:

• TERM

term particularly used of a cessation of See also:

• WORK

work or See also:

• RELIEF

relief from See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty, e.g. of the periods during the See also:

• LIFE

life of a See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament when it is not sitting . The word is also applied to an indentation in a See also:

• LINE

line, especially of a small See also:

• ALCOVE (through the Span. akova, from the Arab. al-, the, and quobbah, a vault)

alcove sunk in the See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall of a See also:

• ROOM

room . A particular use is the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical one for the acts and decrees of the Imperial See also:

• DIET

Diet, the recessus Imperii, and also for those of the Hanseatic See also:

• LEAGUE

League . According to Du Cange (s.v . Recessus) the See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason for the use of this word was that these decrees, &c . (codex deliberationum), were written out antequam a conventibus recedant proceres congregati .