| [[Latin]] ''recantare'', from ''re''- + ''cantare'' to [[sing]] — more at [[chant]] | | [[Latin]] ''recantare'', from ''re''- + ''cantare'' to [[sing]] — more at [[chant]] |
− | *To formally [[abandon]] a [[belief]] or a particular statement of belief, generally under order from an [[ecclesiastical]] [[authority]] (often a synod or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council ecumenical council], or, in the Roman Catholic Church, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition Inquisition], Holy Office, or even on rare occasion the contemporary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]) to enforce an [[orthodoxy]]. If ordered to recant by such an ecclesiastical [[authority]], one who refused to recant is anathematized or [[excommunicated]]. Sometimes the order included threats of physical punishment (e.g., the proverbial [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_at_the_stake burning at the stake], as happened in the trial of St. Jeanne d'Arc). | + | *To formally [[abandon]] a [[belief]] or a particular statement of belief, generally under order from an [[ecclesiastical]] [[authority]] (often a synod or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council ecumenical council], or, in the Roman Catholic Church, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition Inquisition], Holy Office, or even on rare occasion the contemporary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]) to enforce an [[orthodoxy]]. If ordered to recant by such an ecclesiastical [[authority]], one who refused to recant is anathematized or [[excommunicated]]. Sometimes the order included threats of physical punishment (e.g., the proverbial [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_at_the_stake burning at the stake], as happened in the trial of St. Jeanne d'Arc). |
− | *In classical Roman poetry, after describing something [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole hyperbolically], to briefly re-describe it without the exaggeration. (This is the original [[meaning]].) | + | *In classical Roman poetry, after describing something [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole hyperbolically], to briefly re-describe it without the exaggeration. (This is the original [[meaning]].) |