To conclude, his house was a common receipt for all those that came from Greece to Rome.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 446.
Fountains I intend to be of two natures, the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water, the other a fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square, but without fish, or slime, or mud.—Bacon, Essays, 46.
Reclaim. A ‘reclamation’ is still sometimes a calling out against; but ‘to reclaim’ is never, I think, anything now but to call back again; never to disclaim.
Herod, instead of reclaiming what they exclaimed [Acts xii. 22], embraced and hugged their praises as proper to himself, and thereupon an angel and worms, the best and basest of creatures, met in his punishment, the one smiting, the other eating him up.—Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, b. ii. c. 8.
Recognize. This verb means now to revive our knowledge of a person or thing; to reacquaint oneself with it; but in earlier usage to review, as in my first quotation, to reconnoitre, as in my second.
In recognizing this history I have employed a little more labour, partly to enlarge the argument which I took in hand, partly also to assay, whether by any painstaking I might pacify the stomachs, or to satisfy the judgments of these importune quarrellers.—Foxe, Book of Martyrs; Epistle Dedicatory [of the Second Edition] to the Queen’s Majesty.
In quartering either in village, field, or city, he recognize all avenues, whereby his enemies may come to him.—Monro, His Expedition, p. 9.
Reduce. That which is ‘reduced’ now is brought back to narrower limits, or lower terms, or more subject conditions, than those under which it subsisted before. But nothing of this lies of necessity in the word, nor yet in the earlier uses of it. According to these, that was ‘reduced’ which was brought back to its former estate, an estate that might be, and in all the following examples is, an ampler, larger, or more prosperous one than that which it superseded.
The drift of the Roman armies and forces was not to bring free states into servitude, but contrariwise, to reduce those that were in bondage to liberty.—Holland, Livy, p. 1211.
There remained only Britain [i.e. Britany] to be reunited, and so the monarchy of France to be reduced to the ancient terms and bounds.—Bacon, History of King Henry VII.