To depart or go away: to go back: to retyie: to recoyle: to go from: to returne: to go againe: to be diminished: to be farre off. Ab istoc procul recedas. Plaut. Accedere ad aliquem, & recedere ab aliquo, contraria. Cic. Ex acie recedere Cæs. To depart out of. Longius recedere. Virg. Recede illuc. Plaut. Go back againe thither. Domus recessit. Virgil. The house was farre of, or stoode farce out of the way. Flammæ recedunt. Virg. The fire asswaged. Turpiter victa Venus sæpe recessit. Ouid. Recedere ab armis. Cic. To leaue of warce: to cease from warre. A caula alicuius paululum recedere. Cic. To shrinke away: to giue back in ones matter. Recedere ab vsitata consuetudine. Ci. To alter from the accustomed fashion. Recedere lege Cic. To swarue from the lawe. Procul natura recedere. Quintil. To swarue farre from nature. Recedere ab oculis. Pl. Iun. To die: to depart out of thys life. Recedere ab officio. Cicero. To swarue from duetie: to do otherwise than duetie. Auius vera longè ratione recedit. Lucret. Recedere sententijs alicuius. pro illas taxare. Ci. To mislike with ones opinions and not to agree to them. Recessit dictio significatione. Ci. The word is gone from his fiest liguification, and deth no more signifie as it did before. De statu dignitatis recedere. Ci. A vita recedere. Cic. To die: to depart this life. A vitio recedere. Plin. iun. To elchew or auoide vice. Romam recessit. Sal. He retourned againe to Rome. In otra tuta recedere. Hor. To returne to safe quietneffe. Vnde nos pridie Non. Maij recedere cogitamus. Ci. From whence we minde to depart, &c. In auras tenues recedere. Virg. To vanish away out of sight into the aire. De medio recedere. Ci. To go his way hence. Recessit venter. Pli. iun. His bellie is aff waged or diminished. Fragmentum fragmento recedit. Cels. One peece is seperated from an other. Membra cæsa recesserunt cute. Ouid. Pleraq: longius etiam mari recedentia rex possidebat, Curt. Places farre from the sea.

A. Lit. (class.; cf.: decedo, abscedo): pone nos recede, Plaut. Poen. 3, 2, 34: ego abs te procul recedam, id. Mil. 2, 4, 4: hinc, id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7: illuc, id. Rud. 3, 5, 7: recedere loco, id. Am. 1, 1, 84; cf.: centuriones ex eo quo stabant loco recesserunt, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: non modo illum e Galliā non discessisse, sed ne a Mutinā quidem recessisse, Cic. Phil. 8, 7, 21: procul a telo veniente, Ov. M. 12, 359: de medio, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 112: ab hoste, Ov. P. 3, 1, 151: longius, Verg. G. 4, 191: tristis recedo, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 35; id. C. 2, 19, 31: ab Illiturgi, Liv. 24, 41: in castra Corneliana, Caes. B. C. 2, 30 fin. —

2. In partic., to retire to one's bedchamber, go to rest, Petr. 85, 5; Ov. Ib. 239.—

B. Transf.

1. Of inanimate and abstract things: ut illae undae ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: verba movere loco, quamvis invita recedant, yield, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 113: multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimunt, the departing years, id. A. P. 176: abeant ac recedant voces illae, Plin. Pan. 2, 2.—

2. Of places, things, etc., to stand back, recede (i. e. to be distant or retired; freq., esp. after the Aug. per.): secreta parentis Anchisae domus arboribusque obtecta recessit, Verg. A. 2, 300; cf. Cat. 64, 43; and: etsi lata recessit Urbe domus, Stat. Th. 5, 242; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: Palaestina vocabatur, quā contingit Arabas ... et quā recedit intus, Damascena, Plin. 5, 12, 13, 66: Magna Graecia in tres sinus recedens Ausonii maris, id. 3, 10, 15, 95; 4, 10, 17, 33; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18.—Of nations: gens Cappadocum longissime Ponticarum omnium introrsus recedens, Plin. 6, 8, 8, 24.—In a painting, etc.: pictor vi artis suae efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, Quint. 2, 17, 21; cf.: venter recessit, Plin. Ep. 3, 6, 2.—Poet., of places, which appear to recede by our departure from them: provehimur portu, terraeque urbesque recedunt, Verg. A. 3, 72: mea terra recedit, Ov. M. 8, 139; 11, 466; Sil. 3, 157; Stat. Th. 1, 549 al.—

II. In gen., to go away, withdraw, retire, depart from a place, to abandon a thing, = discedere.

A. Lit. (in good prose very rare), = discedere, haec effatu' pater, germana, repente recessit, vanished, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 48 Vahl.): nec vero a stabulis pluviā impendente recedunt Longius (apes), Verg. G. 4, 191; Plin. Ep. 1, 13, 2.—

2. Transf., of things, to separate from any thing (with which it was previously connected): in aliis ossibus ex toto saepe fragmentum a fragmento recedit, Cels. 8, 7, 1: carnes ab ossibus, Plin. 22, 8, 9, 22; 19, 5, 23, 67: caput e cervice, Ov. P. 2, 8, 65; for which also: caput cervice, id. H. 16, 153; cf. id. F. 6, 708; Luc. 8, 674. —

B. Trop., to withdraw, depart, desist (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. and Quint.): si quid vos per laborem recte feceritis, labor ille a vobis cito recedet, Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1, 4: avius a verā longe ratione recedit, Lucr. 2, 229: senes, ut in otia tuta recedant, aiunt, etc., Hor. S. 1, 1, 31: ab officio recedere, Cic. Off. 3, 4, 19; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 5; Cic. Caecin. 20, 58: ab armis, i. e. to lay them down, id. Rosc. Am. 6, 16: penitus a naturā, id. Fin. 4, 16, 43: ab eodem exemplo, Quint. 1, 6, 6; 2, 8, 13; 7, 3, 21: a sententiis ejus, ab omni voluntate, consiliisque, Cic. Att. 12, 4, 2: a vitā, i. e. to kill one's self, id. Tusc. 4, 17, 40 (but Plin. 29, 1, 5, 6, to die, in gen., a doubtful conjecture; Jahn, procedente vitā): a veritatis viā longe, Lact. 2, 8, 1: ab oppugnatione, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40.—Very freq. of inanimate and abstract subjects: postquam recessit vita patrio corpore, Plaut. Merc. prol. 73: (nomen hostis) a peregrino recessit et proprie in eo, qui arma contra ferret, remansit, has lost the signification of foreigner, Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37; so, res a consuetudine, id. Quint. 21, 67; Quint. 2, 13, 11: figurae sententiarum ab illo simplici modo indicandi recedunt, id. 9, 2, 1: ab usu cotidiano, id. 10, 1, 44 et saep.—Poet., with simple abl.: sic nunquam corde recedit Nata tuo, departs, Stat. S. 3, 5, 55.—Absol., to vanish, pass away, disappear: et pariter Phoebes, pariter maris ira recessit, Ov. M. 12, 36: spes, Luc. 7, 688: quonam nostri tibi cura recessit? Verg. A. 2, 595: fortuna recessit, id. ib. 3, 53.— With in: in ventos vita recessit, passed away into the winds, Verg. A. 4, 705.— Hence, rĕcessus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to I. B.), drawn back, receding: scaena recessior, standing farther back, Vitr. 5, 8.