recalcitrate

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.

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

And he does often recalcitrate.

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

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