recusare

recusare [CL] 1 (intr or absol.) to make an objection, protest. monachis ‥ ~antibus et contradicentibus Anselm (Ep. 266) IV 181. 2 (tr.) to reject, refuse, be willing to accept. b (leg.) to deny (charge). c to challenge, reject (person, also p. ppl. as sb. m.). nec petit Augustum pactam sibi reddere sponsam, / conjugium ‥ sponte recusans Aldh. VirgV 2102; recussat, abnuit GlC R 154; hoc habeto praemii quod apostolatus nostri consortium heri recussando tempsisti B. V. Dunst. 20; lapidem una cum anulo ~avit et dixit “sufficit mihi unus anulus quem habeo” V. Edm. Rich P 1807D; quidam volens ostendere amice sue quod tantum eam diligeret quod nullum periculum pro ipsa ~aret Latin Stories 47.  b Cobham scelus omne recusat Pol. Poems I 433.  c 1238 jurata ‥ ponitur in respectum ‥ pro defectu recognitorum, quia quidam de prius electis ex causa ~antur ‥ . et ‥ loco ~atorum electi sunt CurR XVI 148F; ponatur, quod aliquis appellet a papa, vel ~et eum allegando ‥ quod papa ‥ asseruit fidem Christianam esse falsam Ockham Dial. 547; 1368 si per partem appellantem vel appellatam tanta multitudo judicum ‥ ~ata fuerit quod residui non ~ati non sufficiant pro judicibus assignandis StatOx 167. 3 (w. inf. or gd.) to be unwilling, refuse (to do). exempla coriambo congruentia congerere ‥ non ~es Aldh. PR 130; Dei confessorem ferire ~avit Bede HE I 7 p. 21; regem formidantes illius jugo subici omnino ~abant, eique totis nisibus resistebant Ord. Vit. XI 20 p. 224; 1365 quia ~avit vendere pullanos domino Hal. Durh. 49; 1420 ad custodiendum mare ‥ ~averunt KR Ac 49/33; qui ~ant vel nequeant his aliquando consulere in communi Ferr. Kinloss 5. 4 (pr. ppl. as sb.) recusant, one who refuses to submit to authority or comply with request (in quot. one who refuses to act as executor); b (w. ref. to one who refuses to attend services of the Church of England). 1452 si non susceperit administracionem et actualiter administraverit execucionem hujus testamenti sui, sed quod portio illius ~antis accrescat proximo consortiis suis sive consortio suo MunAcOx 656.  b 1589 de terris et tenementis Thome Lawe ‥ ~antis qui indebitatus existit domine regine (Northants) Pipe; 1593 compotus firmarum et aliorum debitorum ~ancium RecusantR I 1; 1605 contra ~antes papistas StatOx 482.