réclame, n.f., (print.) catch-word; primer; (of newspapers) editorial announcement, advertisement, puff, puffing, paragraph puff; (thea.) cue, catchword (last words of couplets).
réclamer, v.a., to implore, to entreat, to beseech; to reclaim, to claim back, to redemand, to demand back again; to claim; (hunt.) to call off; (hawking) to bring back; (jur.) to lay claim to. — son droit; to claim one’s right. — un oiseau; to bring back a hawk. — les chiens; to call off the dogs.
se réclamer, v.r., to be reclaimed, to be demanded; to say one is known to a person; to make use of any one’s name, to invoke, to refer to. Voyant qu’on allait le maltraiter, il se réclama d’un tel; seeing they were about to ill-treat him, he referred to so-and-so.
réclamer, v.n., to oppose, to object, to protest (against), to complain (of), to make a complaint, to make objection (to). Je réclame contre cela; I protest against that. Personne ne réclame? does nobody raise any objection?
reclouer, v.a., to nail again.
☉reclure, v.a., to shut up, to confine, to cloister up, to sequester.
reclus, -e, n. and part., recluse, monk, nun; cloistered up, shut up, sequestered, secluded.
reclusion or réclusion, n.f., reclusion, retirement, seclusion; (jur.) confinement, imprisonment (with hard labor and loss of civil rights).
*recogner, v.a., to hit again, to strike again; to beat back, to drive back, to beat (an argument).
récognitif (-cog-), adj.m., (jur.) recognitory. Acte —; ratification of a liability (stating the consideration thereof).