Definition of "recalcitrate" []

• To kick back; to kick against anything. (verb)
• To express repugnance or opposition. (verb)

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• "Why then did the delicacy of Diogenes and Plato so recalcitrate against it? and wherefore, when we go about to make and plant a man, do we put out the candle? and for what reason is it, that all the parts thereof — the congredients — the preparations — the instruments, and whatever serves thereto, are so held as to be conveyed to a cleanly mind by no language, translation, or periphrasis whatever? —"
• "And the West is kicking, kicking with both feet, kicking like a bay steer who has a kick coming and knows how to recalcitrate."
• "While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate."