recuse

Meaning

1. (often, reflexive, transitive) To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
2. (often, reflexive, transitive) To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
3. (Canada, US, often, reflexive, transitive) To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
4. (obsolete, often, reflexive, transitive) To refuse (to do something).
5. (obsolete, often, rare, reflexive, transitive) To dismiss (an appeal).
6. (intransitive) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

Synonyms

challenge

unfit

Translations

récuser

recusar

أعلن عدم أهلية

wegen Befangenheit ablehnen

εξαιρώ

αυτοεξαιρούμαι

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈkjuːz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: recusen

Cognate with French: récuser

Cognate with Catalan: recusar

Cognate with Italian: ricusare

Cognate with Old Provençal: recuzar

Cognate with Portuguese: recusar

Cognate with Spanish: recusar

In summary

From Late Middle English recusen, from Old French recuser (modern French récuser (“to challenge; to impugn; (formal) to make an objection; (law) to recuse”), and from its etymon Latin recūsāre, the present active infinitive of recūsō (“to decline, refuse, reject; (law) to object to, protest”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’, denoting opposition or reversal) + causa (“cause, reason; (law) case, claim; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of rouse and possibly ruse.
Cognates
* Catalan recusar
* French récuser
* Italian ricusare
* Old Occitan recuzar
* Portuguese recusar
* Spanish recusar