"Recto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vi., p. 108, says of Alvar Nunez: 'Merecia estatua por su rectitud, justicia y Christiandad.' And in another place Guevara says: 'La Florida lo cautivo/ con inhumanidad; La Asuncion lo aprisiono/ con infamia; pero en una y otro parte fue ejemplar de moderacion . . . recto, prudente y de sano corazon.' Alvar Nunez died holding the office of 'Oidor de la Audiencia de Sevilla', according to P. del Techo ('Historia del Paraguay'); or as a member of the Consejo de Indias, according to ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older 'hot-press' printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no changes ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0 |
