Associations to the word «Recuse»

Wiktionary

RECUSE, verb. (transitive) To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified to act.
RECUSE, verb. (intransitive) (of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified to act.

Dictionary definition

RECUSE, verb. Disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case.
RECUSE, verb. Challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne