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Pronunciation
Verb
recalcitrate (third-person singular simple present recalcitrates, present participle recalcitrating, simple past and past participle recalcitrated)
- (intransitive) To kick back; to kick against anything.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):[The National Assembly] has to hear of innumerable fresh revolts, Brigand expeditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates.
- (transitive, by extension) To express repugnance or opposition.
1840, Thomas De Quincey, Society of the Lakes:The more one was indignant at being the object of such a man's contempt, the more heartily did one disdain his disdain, and recalcitrate his kicks.
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Latin
Verb
recalcitrāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of recalcitrō