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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats