RECUR', verb intransitive [Latin recurro; re and curro, to run.] 1. To return to the thought or mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind, when the word is heard. 2. To resort; to have recourse. If to avoid succession in eternal existence, they recur to the punctum stans of the schools, they will very little help us to a more positive idea of infinite duration.
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