recalcitrate

He braced his feet and stood his ground, and made the wise men wait, While with his heels at all around he did recalcitrate.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

Against all pretensions on the part of science or experimental reasoning to assume this post he was especially given to rebel and recalcitrate.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here, dear Christopher, I recalcitrate, and decline printing the rest of the sentence; but as to "Things in General"—I am somewhat smitten with the suggestion.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga

And the West is kicking, kicking with both feet, kicking like a bay steer who has a kick coming and knows how to recalcitrate.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann

Still there remained a considerable number both of heretic Brethren of the Free Spirit and of orthodox Beghards of both sexes who recalcitrated of being thus brought under rule and deprived of their accustomed independence.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

The people in some places recalcitrated violently; but the Jesuits and Ultramontanes triumphed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

Again and again, as the magnitude of the task became manifest, we find him doubting, hesitating, recalcitrating, and yet captive.

From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol

August made no moaning or recalcitrating; took, on the prescribed terms, the inevitable that had come.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle

Instead of ready-money, there is nothing but rebellious debating and recalcitrating.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle