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In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.

One who produces, or offers to notice. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming putrid or rotten. Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core. Motley.

The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. --Quat`tro*cen"tist (#), n.

Acute of smell.

Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.

In a quiescent manner.

Becoming rancid or sour.

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

ike; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. Woodward.

To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.

Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

Quality or state of being recent.

Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.…

To concentrate again; to concentrate thoroughly.

The act of reconcentrating or the state of being reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.

A reducent agent.

Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.