recourse

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From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō.

countable, uncountable The act of seeking assistance or advice. Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
uncountable The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation. Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible
countable, obsolete, uncountable A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence. [B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.
countable, obsolete, uncountable Access; admittance. [...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd ſacke, to giue me recourſe to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a ieſt.

obsolete To return; to recur. […] the flame departing and recoursing thrice ere the wood took strength to be sharper to consume […]
obsolete To have recourse; to resort.
obsolete To recurse (execute a procedure recursively).