recede Copy link Outline 1. rĕcēdo, cessi, cessum, 32. discēdo3. sēcēdo4. rĕfŭgio, fūgi, 35. rĕlābor, psus, 36. rĕfluo, 3 • recede: 1. rĕcēdo, cessi, cessum, 3: the lands and cities r. (from view), terraeque urbesque recedunt, Virg. Aen. 3, 72: you r. from your words, a verbis recedis, Cic. Caecin. 13, 37: a painter makes us believe that some parts in his work project, and others r., efficit, ut quaedam eminere in opere, quaedam recessisse credamus, Quint. 2, 17, 21. 2. discēdo: one ought not to r. from one's conscience even a finger's breadth, a recta conscientia transversum unguem non oportet discedere, Cic. Att. 13, 20. 3. sēcēdo: as much as from the highest, so much did the globe of the earth r. from the lowest, quantum a summis, tantum secessit ab imis terra, Ov. Fast. 6, 279. 4. rĕfŭgio, fūgi, 3: the Euxine encroaches on the lands r.ing to a great distance, longe refugientes occupat terras, Plin. H. N. 4, 12, 24, § 76. 5. rĕlābor, psus, 3: the r.ing waters, relabentes undas, Claud. laus Ser. 79. 6. rĕfluo, 3: Tiber r.ing stopped, Thybris refluens substitit, Virg. Aen. 8, 87: v. retire.