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The Term is alfo ufed when two Planets exchange Exalta-
RECESSION of the Equinoxes. See Precession.
R.ECESSUS Imperii, Recefs of the Empire, a Phrafe ufed in Jpeaking of the Affairs of Germany; fignifying a Collection of the Voces or Determinations of a Dyet. SeeDYET.
At the end or each Dyer, e're it breaks up, they gather toge- ther all their Refolutions, and reduce them into Writing; the Act which contains them they call Recejfus Imperii, becaufe made when on the Point of retiring.
There being, now, no Articles of Succours for the War a- gainfi the Turks, which ufed to make the greateft Part of the Recejfus Imperii j they are at a lofs for Matter to fill them with- all, as well as for the Manner of drawing them up. Mozam- bano.
The Diforders in the Imperial Camber of Spirit were fo great, that in 1654., they made feveral Regulations therein ,- inferred in - the Rece(pi$ Imperii. Id. See Chamber.
RECHABITES, a Kind of Religious Order among the an- tient Jews, inftituted by Jonathan the Son of Rechab ,- compre- hending his Family and Pofterity.
Their Founder prefcribed them three things; Firfi, Not to drink any Wine. Secondly, Not to build any Houfes, but to dwell under Tents. Thirdly, Not to fow any Corn, or Plant a- ny Vines.
The Rechabites obferv'd thefe Rules with a great deal of ftrict- nefs, as appears from Jeremy xxxv. 6, &c.
Whence, St. Jerom in his xiii Epiftle to Vaulmus, calls them 'Jdonachi, Monks.
This Jonathan lived under Jojias King of Judabj his Father Rechab, from whom his Pofterity were denominated, defcended from Raguel or Jethroj Father-in-law to Mofes, who was a Cine- an, or of the Race of Cin; whence Cinean and Rechabite, areu- fed as fynonimous in Scripture.
RECHANGE, or Re-exchange, in Commerce, a fecond Payment of the Price or Exchange ; or rather the Price of a New Ei'cnange, due upon a Bill of Excahnge that comes to be pro- tected; and to be refunded the Bearer, by the Drawer, or £n- uKler. bee Exchange.
The Occaiion of Rechange is, when the Bearer of a Bill of Ex :hange, after protefting it for want either of Acceptance, or of Payment, borrows Money on his own Promife, Bond, or the like.; or draws a Bill of Exchange in the Place where the Payment was to be made, on the Perfon who furnifhed the firft i for which he pays a fecond Exchange, which being added to the firft already paid, the Drawer of the firft Bill makes two Ex- changes, properly call'd Exchange and Re-exchange. See Bill and Protest.
The Bearer of a protefted Bill has a right to recover both the one and the other on the Drawer. Yet the limple Proteftation ttK Bearer makes in the Ad of Protefi, that he will take up a like Sum at Re-exchange, for want of his Bill being accepted or paid; is not fufficienc to entitle him to demand the Reimburfe- ment of his Rechange; unlefs he make it appear he has actually taken up Money in the Place whereon the Bill was drawn.
Otherwife, the Rechange will only amount to the Reftitution of the firftExchange, with Intereft, the Expences of Protefting, and of the journey, if there have been any.
If a Bill of Exchange, payable to the Bearer, or Order , come to be protefted, the Rechange is only due upon the Drawer for the Place where the Remittance was made; not for thofe Places where "it may have been negotiated; at leaft, the Drawer has a Right to be refunded his Rechange for thofe Places, by the Endorfer.
Indeed the Rechange is due from the Drawer upon all Places where a Power of Negotiating is given by the Bill, and upon all others, if the Power of Negotiating be Indefinite.
Laftly, The Intereft of the Rechange, of the Expences of the Proteft, and the Journey, are only due irom the Day of the Demand.
Tis fuppofed to be the Gibelins driven out of Italy by the Fa- ction of the Guelpbs, and fhelter'd at Amjierdam, who firft efta- blifhed the Cuftom of Rechange, on pretence of the Interefts, Damages, and Expences they underwent, when the Bills given them for the Effects they had been obliged to abandon, were not accepted, but came to be protefted. See Bill of Exchange.
Rechange is alfo ufed at Sea for fuch Tackle as is kept in Reierve aboard the Ship, to ferve in Cafe of failure of that al- ready in Ufe. See Tackle.
The Levantines ufe the Word Rejpecl, or Refpit in the fame Senfe.
RECHARGE, of a Fire-Arm, is a fecond loading or Charge. See Charge.
The Recharge fhould never be fo deep as the firft Charge, leaft the Piece being over-heated fhould burft.
RECHAQNG, in Hunting, the driving back of the Deer, or other Beafts, into the Forefts, Chaces, &c. which had ftrag- led out into the Copies, or Thickets, &c. See Forest, &c.
Antiently there were Offices of Rechacers of the Deer, be- ftowM by the King on Gentlemen, or old Hunters, with Sala- ries for the keeping of running Dogs, to rechace the Deer into
the Forefts, and then to beat them off, without purfuing any farther. See Purlieu.
RECHEAT, in Hunting, a Lefibn which the Huntfman winds on the Horn, when the Hounds have loft their Game i to call them back from purfuing a Counter-fcent.
RECIPE, in Medicine* a Prefcription, or Formula of a Reme- dy, appointed to be adminiitred to a Patient. See Prescrip- tion.
Tis thus call'd, becaufe always beginning with the Word Re- cipe, Take; ordinarily exprefs'd by ft.
RECIPIANGLE, or Recipient-Angle, a Mathematical Inftrumenc, ferving to take the Quantity of Angles, efpecially in the making of Plans of Fortifications.
The Recipiangle is a popular Inftrument among the French, but little known among us: 'Tis ufually very limple^ in Form of a Square, or rather a Bevel ; confuting of two Arms or Branches, riveted together, and yet moveable, like a Sector on the Centre or Rivet.
To take an Angle with it, they lay the Centre of the Protra- ctor to the Joint, and the Degrees cut by the Edge fhew the Quantity of the Angle; Otherwife the Angle made by the two Rulers is drawn on Paper, and then meafured with a Pro- tractor.
Sometimes there is a Circle divided into Degrees, added over the Centre or Rivqu with an Index to fhew the Degrees with- out a Protractor : At other times the under Branch is a* . ided.
To meaiure a Saliant Angle with any of the Recipianghs, apply the Infides to the Lines that form the Angle; for a re-entering Angle, apply the oudides, &c.
RECIPIENT, Receiver, in Chymiftry, an Appendage of an Alembic, Retort, &c. being a Vefiei luted to the rfeak there- of, to receive the Liquor rais'd in Diftillation, &c. See Alem- bic, Retort, Distillation, d-c.
Recipient is alfo Pare of 'h-* Apparatus of an Air Pump; being a Glais Veffel placed a-top of the Plate, lor the Air to be exhaufted from. See Air-Pump.
To an Air-Pump belong various Recipients-, of various Forms and Sizes, and ferving for various Purpoles. See Vacuum.
RECIPROCAL, fomething chat is Mutual, or which is re- turn'd equally on both Sides, or affects both Parties alike. See Mutual.
Thus, we fay, the end of Human Society is to afford each other reciprocal Aid. — There arc reciprocal Duties between the Prince and his Subjects, the Husband and Wife, <& c.
The Lex Takonh eftablifhes a kind of Reciprocation of Juftice,
There is a Reciprocal Action between the Agent and Patient. See Reaction.
If two fimilar Triangles be cut by Parallel Lines, the Sections of the Lines will be Proportional ; and Reciprocally, if the Sides be cut Proportionably, the Sides are fimilar. See Triangle.
Reciprocal, in Logick, is applied to Terms which have the fame Signification, or are convertible j isReafhiable Animal, and Man. See Convertible and Term.
The Schoolmen define Reciprocation, a Converfion of the fe- veral Terms in an Enunciation. And Terms are faid to be con- verted in an Enunciation, when the Predicate is put in the Place of the Subject, and reciprocally, the Subject in that of the Pre- dicate.
Thus Rationality and Rifibility are faid to reciproatle; for we fay, equal a Rational is Rifible; and a Riiible is Rational.
RECIPROCAL, in Grammar, is applied to certain Verbs and Pronouns, in fome of the Modern Languages ; in regard of their turning or reflecting the Noun, or Perfon upon himfelf.
Thus the Pronoun-relative himfelf, refers Cato to Cato's felf. See Pronoun.
The AbbedeDangeau, defines Reciprocal Verbs m be thofe whofe Nominative is Plural, and denotes Perfons acting mutually on one another: As, Cesyuatre hommes j' entrebattoient ; Thefe four Men fought together. Pierrt & toi vous vous louez j Peter and you Praife one another, &c.
Reciprocal Verbs are a Species of thofe which that Author calls Pronominal;, and which he diftinguifhes into Reciprocal and Identi- cal. See Verb.
Reciprocal, in Poetry, is applied to Verfes which run the fame both backwards and forwards ; call'd alfo Recurrents. See Recurrents.
Reciprocal Figures, in Geometry, are fuch as have the An- tecedents and Confequents of the fame Ratio in both Figures^ as Tab. Geometry Fig. 22. Here,
A : B : : C : D, Or, 12 : 4 : : 9 : 3
That is, as much longer as the Side A, in the firft Rectangle, is thanBj fo much deeper is the Side C in the fecond Rectan- gle, than the Side D in the firft: and confequentiy, the Length of one is compenfated by the Depth of the other.
Alfo as the Side A is ~ longer than the Side C, fo the SideB is \ longer than D : Wherefore the Rectangles muffc needs be equal. See Rectangle.
This is the Foundation of that Catholick Theorem ; that the Rectangle of the Extremes rauft always be equal to that of the Means: And confequentiy, the Reafon of the Rule of Three, or Golden Rule. See Rule.
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