Request – Respecter

Request

REQUEST', noun [Latin requisitus, requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Quest, Question.]

1. The expression of desire to some person for something to be granted or done; an asking; a petition.

Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen. Esther 7:2.

2. Prayer; the expression of desire to a superior or to the Almighty. Philippians 4:6.

3. The thing asked for or requested.

I will both hear and grant you your requests.

He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. Psalms 104:1.

4. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or pursued.

Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.

In request in demand; in credit or reputation.

Coriolanus being now in no request

REQUEST expresses less earnestness than entreaty and supplication, and supposes a right in the person requested to deny or refuse to grant. In this it differs from demand.

REQUEST', verb transitive

1. To ask; to solicit; to express desire for.

The weight of the golden ear-rings which he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold. Judges 8:24.

2. To express desire to; to ask. We requested a friend to accompany us.

Court of requests, in England, a court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed his majesty by supplication.

3. A court of conscience for the recovery of small debts, held by two aldermen and four commoners, who try causes by the oath of parties and of other witnesses.

Requested

REQUEST'ED, participle passive Asked; desired; solicited.

Requester

REQUEST'ER, noun One who requests; a petitioner.

Requesting

REQUEST'ING, participle present tense Asking; petitioning.

Requicken

REQUICK'EN, verb transitive [re and quicken.] To reanimate; to give new life to.

Requickened

REQUICK'ENED, participle passive Reanimated.

Requickening

REQUICK'ENING, participle present tense Reanimating; invigorating.

Requiem

RE'QUIEM, noun [Latin]

1. In the Romish church, a hymn or mass sung for the dead, for the rest of his soul; so called from the first word.

2. Rest; quiet; peace. [Not in use.]

Requietory

REQUI'ETORY, noun [Low Latin requietorium.] A sepulcher. [Not in use.]

Requirable

REQUI'RABLE, adjective [from require.] That may be required; fit or proper to be demanded.

Require

REQUI'RE, verb transitive [Latin requiro; re and quaero, to seek. See Query.]

1. To demand; to ask, as of right and by authority. We require a person to do a thing, and we require a thing to be done.

Why then doth my lord require this thing? 1 Chronicles 21:3.

2. To claim; to render necessary; as a duty or any thing indispensable; as, the law of God requires strict obedience.

3. To ask as a favor; to request.

I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. Ezra 8:22.

[In this sense, the word is rarely used.]

4. To call to account for.

I will require my flock at their hand. Ezekiel 34:10.

5. To make necessary; to need; to demand.

The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21:8.

6. To avenge; to take satisfaction for. 1 Samuel 20:16.

Required

REQUI'RED, participle passive Demanded; needed; necessary.

Requirement

REQUI'REMENT, noun Demand; requisition.

This ruler was one of those who believe that they can fill us every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness.

The Bristol water is of service where the secretions exceed the requirements of health.

Requirer

REQUI'RER, noun One who requires.

Requiring

REQUI'RING, participle present tense Demanding; needing;

Requisite

REQ'UISITE, adjective s as z. [Latin requiitus, from requiro.]

Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; necessary; so needful that it cannot be dispensed with. Repentance and faith are requisite to salvation. Air is requisite to support life. Heat is requisite to vegetation.

REQ'UISITE, noun That which is necessary; something indispensable. Contentment is a requisite to a happy life.

God on his part has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know.

Requisitely

REQ'UISITELY, adverb Necessarily; in a requisite manner.

Requisiteness

REQ'UISITENESS, noun The state of being requisite or necessary; necessity.

Requisition

REQUISI'TION, noun [See Require.]

Demand; application made as of right. Under the old confederation of the American states, congress often made requisitions on the states for money to supply the treasury; but they had no power to enforce their requisitions, and the states neglected or partially complied with them.

Requisitive

REQUIS'ITIVE, adjective Expressing or implying demand.

Requisitory

REQUIS'ITORY, adjective Sought for; demanded. [Little used.]

Requital

REQUI'TAL, noun [from requite.]

1. Return for any office, good or bad; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation or punishment, as the requital of evil deeds.

2. Return; reciprocal action.

No merit their aversion can remove, nor ill requital can efface their love.

Requite

REQUI'TE, verb transitive [from quit, Latin cedo.]

1. To repay either good or evil; in a good sense, to recompense; to return an equivalent in good; to reward.

I also will requite you this kindness. 2 Samuel 2:6. 1 Timothy 5:4.

In a bad sense, to retaliate; to return evil for evil; to punish.

Joseph will certainly requite us all the evil which we did to him. Genesis 50:15.

2. To do or give in return.

He hath requited me evil for good. 1 Samuel 25:21.

Requited

REQUI'TED, participle passive Repaid; recompensed; rewarded.

Requiter

REQUI'TER, noun One who requites.

Requiting

REQUI'TING, participle present tense Recompensing; rewarding; giving in return.

Rere-Mouse

RE'RE-MOUSE, noun A bat. [See Rear-mouse.]

Rere-Ward

RE'RE-WARD, noun [rear and ward.] The part of an army that marches in the rear, as the guard; the rear guard. [The latter othography is to be preferred.] Numbers 10:1. Isaiah 52:1.

Resail

RESA'IL, v. or i. [re and sail.] To sail back.

Resale

RESA'LE, noun [re and sale.]

1. A sale at second hand.

2. To return a salutation.

Resalute

RESALU'TE, verb transitive [Latin resaluto; re and saluto, to salute.]

1. To salute or greet anew.

2. To return a salutation.

Resaluted

RESALU'TED, participle passive Saluted again.

Resaluting

RESALU'TING, participle present tense Saluting anew.

Rescind

RESCIND', verb transitive [Latin rescindo; re and scindo; to cut.]

1. To abrogate; to revoke; to annul; to vacate an act by the enacting authority or by superior authority; as, to rescind a law, a resolution or a vote; to rescind an edict or decree; to rescind a judgment.

2. To cut off. [Not used.]

Rescission

RESCISSION, noun resizh'on. [Latin rescissus.]

1. The act of abrogating, annulling or vacating; as the rescission of a law, decree or judgment.

2. A cutting off.

Rescissory

RESCIS'SORY, adjective Having power to cut off or to abrogate.

Rescous

RES'COUS, in law. [See Rescue.]

Rescribe

RESCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin rescribo; re and scribo, to write.]

1. To write back.

2. To write over again.

Rescript

RE'SCRIPT, noun [Latin rescriptum, rescribo.] The answer of an emperor, when consulted by particular persons on some difficult question. This answer serves as a decision of the question, and is therefore equivalent to an edict or decree.

Rescriptively

RESCRIP'TIVELY, adverb By rescript. [Unusual.]

Rescuable

RES'CUABLE, adjective That may be rescued.

Rescue

RESCUE, verb transitive res'cu.[Latin re and quatio.]

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger or evil; to liberate from actual restraint, or to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from an officer; to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.

So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not.

1 Samuel 14:30. Psalms 35:17.

Cattle taken by distress contrary to law, may be rescued by the owner, while on their way to the pound.

Estimate the value of one soul rescued from eternal guilt and agony, and destined to grow forever in the knowledge and likeness of God.

RES'CUE, noun [See the Verb.]

1. Deliverance from restraint, violence or danger, by force or by the interference of an agent.

2. In law, rescue or rescous, the forcible retaking of a lawful distress from the distrainor, or from the custody of the law; also, the forcible liberation of a defendant from the custody of the officer, in which cases, the remedy is by writ of rescous. But when the distress is unlawfully taken, the owner may lawfully make rescue

The rescue of a prisoner from the court, is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods.

Rescued

RES'CUED, participle passive Delivered from confinement or danger; or forcibly taken from the custody of the law.

Rescuer

RES'CUER, noun One that rescues or retakes.

Rescuing

RES'CUING, participle present tense Liberating from restraint or danger; forcibly taking from the custody of the law.

Research

RESEARCH, noun reserch'. Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as researches of human wisdom.

RESEARCH, verb transitive reserch'.

1. To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently for the truth.

It is not easy to research with due distinction, in the actions of eminent personages, both how much may have been blemished by the envy of others, and what was corrupted by their own felicity. [Unusual.]

2. To search again; to examine anew.

Researcher

RESEARCHER, noun reserch'er. One who diligently inquires or examines.

Reseat

RESE'AT, verb transitive [re and seat.] To seat or set again.

Reseated

RESE'ATED, participle passive Seated again.

Reseating

RESE'ATING, participle present tense Seating again.

Resection

RESEC'TION, noun [Latin resectio, reseco.] The act of cutting or paring off.

Reseek

RESEE'K, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive resought. [re and seek.]

To seek again.

Reseize

RESE'IZE, verb transitive [re and seize.]

1. To seize again; to seize a second time.

2. In law, to take possession of lands and tenements which have been disseized.

Whereupon the sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize.

Reseized

RESE'IZED, participle passive Seized again.

Reseizer

RESE'IZER, noun One who seizes again.

Reseizing

RESE'IZING, participle present tense Seizing again.

Reseizure

RESEIZURE, noun resc'zhur. A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

Resell

RESELL', verb transitive To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold.

Resemblable

RESEM'BLABLE, adjective [See Resemble.] That may be compared. [Not in use.]

Resemblance

RESEM'BLANCE, noun [See Resemble.]

1. Likeness; similitude, either of external form or of qualities. We observe a resemblance between persons, a resemblance in shape, a resemblance in manners, a resemblance in dispositions. Painting and poetry bear a great resemblance to each other, as one object of both is to please.

2. Something similar; similitude; representation.

These sensible things which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.

Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair -

Resemble

RESEM'BLE, verb transitive s as z. [See similar.]

1. To have the likeness of; to bear the similitude of something, either in form, figure or qualities. One man may resemble another in features; he may resemble a third person in temper or deportment.

Each one resembled the children of a king. Judges 8:18.

2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like something else.

The torrid parts of Africa are resembled to a libbard's skin, the distance of whose spots represents the dispersed situation of the habitations.

Resembled

RESEM'BLED, participle passive Likened; compared.

Resembling

RESEM'BLING, participle present tense Having the likeness of; likening; comparing.

Resend

RESEND', verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive resent. [re and send.]

To send again; to send back. [Not in use.]

Resent

RESENT', verb transitive s as z. [Latin sentio.]

1. To take well; to receive with satisfaction. obsolete

2. To take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be in some degree angry or provoked at.

Thou with scorn and anger would'st resent the offer'd wrong.

Resented

RESENT'ED, participle passive Taken ill; being in some measure angry at.

Resenter

RESENT'ER, noun

1. One who resents; one that feels an injury deeply.

2. In the sense of one that takes a thing well. obsolete

Resentful

RESENT'FUL, adjective Easily provoked to anger; of an irritable temper.

Resenting

RESENT'ING, participle present tense Taking ill; feeling angry at.

Resentingly

RESENT'INGLY, adverb

1. With a sense of wrong or affront; with a degree of anger.

2. With deep sense or strong perception. obsolete

Resentive

RESENT'IVE, adjective Easily provoked or irritated; quick to feel an injury or affront.

Resentment

RESENT'MENT, noun

1. The excitement of passion which proceeds from a sense of wrong offered to ourselves, or to those who are connected with us; anger. This word usually expresses less excitement than anger, though it is often synonymous with it. It expresses much less than wrath, exasperation, and indignation. In this use, resentment is not the sense or perception of injury, but the excitement which is the effect of it.

Can heavenly minds such high resentment show?

2. Strong perception of good. [Not in use.]

Reservation

RESERVA'TION, noun s as z. [Latin reservo.]

1. The act of reserving or keeping back or in the mind; reserve; concealment or withholding from disclosure; as mental reservation

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

With reservation of a hundred knights.

In the United States, a tract of land not sold with the rest, is called a reservation

3. Custody; state of being treasured up or kept in store.

4. In law, a clause or part of an instrument by which something is reserved, not conceded or granted; also, a proviso.

Mental reservation is the withholding of expression or disclosure of something that affects a proposition or statement, and which if disclosed, would materially vary its import.

Mental reservations are the refuge of hypocrites.

Reservative

RESERV'ATIVE, adjective Keeping; reserving.

Reservatory

RESERV'ATORY, noun [from reserve.] A place in which things are reserved or kept.

Reserve

RESERVE, verb transitive rezerv'. [Latin reservo; re and servo, to keep.]

1. To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose. The farmer sells his corn, reserving only what is necessary for his family.

Hast thou seen the treasures of hail, which I have reserved against the day of trouble? Job 38:23.

2. To keep; to hold; to retain.

Will he reserve his anger for ever? Jeremiah 3:5.

3. To lay up and keep for a future time. 2 Peter 2:9.

RESERVE your kind looks and language for private hours.

RESERVE, noun rezerv'.

1. That which is kept for other or future use; that which is retained from present use or disposal.

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.

2. Something in the mind withheld from disclosure.

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

3. Exception; something withheld.

Is knowledge so despis'd? or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?

4. Exception in favor.

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve

5. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. reserve may proceed from modesty, bashfulness, prudence, prudery or sullenness.

My soul surpris'd, and from her sex disjoin'd, left all reserve and all the sex behind.

6. In law, reservation.

In reserve in store; in keeping for other or future use. He has large quantities of wheat in reserve He has evidence or arguments in reserve

Body of reserve in military affairs, the third or last line of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency.

Reserved

RESERV'ED, participle passive

1. Kept for another or future use; retained.

2. adjective Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.

To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all.

Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.

Reservedly

RESERV'EDLY, adverb

1. With reserve; with backwardness; not with openness or frankness.

2. Scrupulously; cautiously; coldly.

Reservedness

RESERV'EDNESS, noun Closeness; want of frankness, openness or freedom. A man may guard himself by that silence and reservedness which every one may innocently practice.

Reserver

RESERV'ER, noun One that reserves.

Reserving

RESERV'ING, participle present tense Keeping back; keeping for other use or for use at a future time; retaining.

Reservoir

RESERVOIR', noun A place where any thing is kept in store, particularly a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill-wheel and the like; a cistern; a mill-pond; a bason.

Reset

RE'SET, noun In Scots law, the receiving and harboring of an outlaw or a criminal.

Resettle

RESET'TLE, verb transitive [re and settle.]

1. To settle again.

2. To install, as a minister of the gospel.

RESET'TLE, verb intransitive to settle in the ministry a second time; to be installed.

Resettled

RESET'TLED, participle passive Settled again; installed.

Resettlement

RESET'TLEMENT, noun

1. The act of settling or composing again.

The resettlement of my discomposed soul.

2. The state of settling or subsiding again; as the resettlement of lees.

3. A second settlement in the ministry.

Resettling

RESET'TLING, participle present tense Settling again; installing.

Reship

RESHIP', verb transitive [re and ship.] To ship again; to ship what has been conveyed by water or imported; as coffee and sugar imported into New York, and reshipped for Hamburg.

Reshipment

RESHIP'MENT, noun

1. the act of shipping or loading on board of a ship a second time; the shipping for exportation what has been imported.

2. That which is reshipped.

Reshipped

RESHIP'PED, participle passive Shipped again.

Reshipping

RESHIP'PING, participle present tense Shipping again.

Resiance

RE'SIANCE, noun [See Resiant.] Residence; abode. obsolete

Resiant

RE'SIANT, adjective [Latin resideo. See Reside.]

Resident; dwelling; present in a place. obsolete

Reside

RESI'DE, verb intransitive s as z. [Latin resideo, resido; re and sedeo, to sit, to settle.]

1. to dwell permanently or for a length of time; to have a settled abode for a time. the peculiar uses of this word are to be noticed. When the word is appliced to the natives of a state, or others who dwell in it as permanent citizens, we use it only with reference to the part of a city or country in which a man dwells. We do not say generally that Englishmen reside in England, but a particular citizen resides in London or York, or at such a house in such a street, in the Strand, etc.

When the word is applied to strangers or travelers, we do not say, a man resides in an inn for a night, but he resided in London or Oxford a month, or a year; or part of his life. A man lodges, stays, remains, abides, for a day or very short time, but reside implies a longer time, though not definite.

2. To sink to the bottom of liquors; to settle. obsolete

[In this sense, subside is now used.]

Residence

RES'IDENCE, noun

1. The act of abiding or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.

The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

2. The place of abode; a dwelling; a habitation.

Caprea had been - the residence of Tiberius for several years.

3. That which falls to the bottom of liquors. obsolete

4. In the canon and common law, the abode of a person or incumbent on his benefice; opposed to non-residence.

Resident

RES'IDENT, adjective [Latin residens.]

Dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continuance of time, but not definite; as a minister resident at the court of St. James. A B is now resident in South America.

RES'IDENT, noun

1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. A B is now a resident in London.

2. A public minister who resides at a foreign court. It is usually applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of embassadors.

Residentiary

RESIDEN'TIARY, adjective Having residence.

RESIDEN'TIARY, noun An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.

Resider

RESI'DER, noun One who resides in a particular place.

Residing

RESI'DING, participle present tense Dwelling in a place for some continuance of time.

Residual

RESID'UAL, adjective Remaining after a part is taken.

Residuary

RESID'UARY, adjective [Latin residuus. See Reside.]

Pertaining to the residue or part remaining; as the residuary advantage of an estate.

Residuary legatee, in law, the legatee to whom is bequeathed the part of goods and estate which remains after deducting all the debts and specific legacies.

Residue

RES'IDUE, noun [Latin residuus.]

1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed or designated.

The locusts shall eat the residue of that which has escaped. Exodus 10:5.

The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jeremiah 15:9.

2. The balance or remainder of a debt or account.

Residuum

RESID'UUM, noun [Latin]

1. Residue; that which is left after any process of separation or purification.

2. In law, the part of an estate or of goods and chattels remaining after the payment of debts and legacies.

Resiege

RESIE'GE, verb transitive [re and siege.] To seat again; to reinstate. obsolete

Resign

RESIGN, verb transitive rezi'ne. [Latin resigno; re and signo, to sign. The radical sense of sign is to send, to drive, hence to set. To resign is to send, to drive, hence to set. To resign is to send back or send away.]

1. To give up; to give back, as an office or commission, to the person or authority that conferred it; hence, to surrender an office or charge in a formal manner; as, a military officer resigns his commission; a prince resigns his crown.

Phoebus resigns his darts, and Jove his thunder, to the god of love.

2. To withdraw, as a claim. He resigns all pretensions to skill.

3. To yield; as, to resign the judgment to the direction of others.

4. To yield or give up in confidence.

What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign ourselves to the will of God?

5. To submit, particularly to Providence.

A firm, yet cautious mind; sincere, though prudent; constant, yet resign'd.

6. To submit without resistance or murmur.

RE'SIGN, verb transitive To sign again.

RESIGN, noun Resignation. obsolete

Resignation

RESIGNA'TION, noun

1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim or possession; as the resignation of a crown or commission.

2. Submission; unresisting acquiescence; as a blind resignation to the authority of other men's opinions.

3. Quiet submission to the will of Providence; submission without discontent, and with entire acquiescence in the divine dispensations. This is christian resignation

Resigned

RESIGNED, participle passive

1. Given up; surrendered; yielded.

2. adjective Submissive to the will of God.

Resignedly

RESIGNEDLY, adverb With submission.

Resigning

RESIGNING, participle present tense Giving up; surrendering; submitting.

Resignment

RESIGNMENT, noun The act of resigning. obsolete

Resilah

RES'ILAH, noun An ancient patriarchal coin.

Resilience

RESIL'IENCE,

RESIL'IENCY, noun s as z. [Latin resiliens, resilio; re and salio, to spring.]

The act of leaping or springing back, or the act of rebounding; as the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Resiliency

RESIL'IENCY, n. s as z. [L. resiliens, resilio; re and salio, to spring.] The act of leaping or springing back, or the act of rebounding; as the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Resilient

RESIL'IENT, adjective [Latin resiliens.] Leaping or starting back; rebounding.

Resilition

RESILI'TION, noun [Latin resilio.] The act of springing back; resilience.

Resin

RES'IN, noun s as z. [Latin , Gr. to flow.]

An inflammable substance, hard when cool, but viscid when heated, exuding in a fluid state from certain kinds of trees, as pine, either spontaneously or by incision. Resins are soluble in oils and alcohol, and are said to be nothing but oils concreted by combination with oxygen. Resins differ from gums, which are vegetable mucilage; and they are less sweet and odorous than balsams.

Resiniferous

RESINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin resina and fero, to produce.]

Yielding resin; as a resiniferous tree or vessels.

Resiniform

RES'INIFORM, adjective Having the form of resin.

Resino-Electric

RESINO-ELEC'TRIC, adjective Containing or exhibiting negative electricity, or that kind which is produced by the friction of resinous substances.

Resino-Extractive

RES'INO-EXTRAC'TIVE, adjective Designating extractive matter in which resin predominates.

Resinous

RES'INOUS, adjective Partaking of the qualities of resin; like resin. resinous substances are combustible.

Resinous electricity, is that electricity which is excited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. This is generally negative.

Resinously

RES'INOUSLY, adverb By means of resin; as resinously electrified.

Resinousness

RES'INOUSNESS, noun The quality of being resinous.

Resipiscence

RESIPIS'CENCE, noun [Latin resipisco, from resipio; re and sapio, to taste.]

Properly, wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [Little used.]

Resist

RESIST, verb transitive rezist'. [Latin resisto; re and sisto, to stand.]

1. Literally, to stand against; to withstand; hence, to act in opposition, or to oppose. a dam or mound resists a current of water passively, by standing unmoved and interrupting its progress. An army resists the progress of an enemy actively, by encountering and defeating it. We resist measures by argument or remonstrance.

Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? Romans 9:19.

2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat or frustrate.

Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. Acts 7:51.

3. To baffle; to disappoint.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. James 4:7.

RESIST', verb intransitive to make opposition.

Resistance

RESIST'ANCE, noun

1. The act of resisting; opposition. resistance is passive, as that of a fixed body which interrupts the passage of a moving body; or active, as in the exertion of force to stop, repel or defeat progress or designs.

2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as the resistance of a ball which receives the force of another; the resistance of wood to a cutting instrument; the resistance of air to the motion of a cannon ball, or of water to the motion of a ship.

Resistant

RESIST'ANT, noun he or that which resists.

Resisted

RESIST'ED, participle passive Opposed; counteracted; withstood.

Resister

RESIST'ER, noun One that opposes or withstands.

Resistibility

RESISTIBIL'ITY, noun

1. The quality of resisting.

The name body, being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject -

2. Quality of being resistible; as the resistibility of grace.

Resistible

RESIST'IBLE, adjective That may be resisted; as a resistible force; resistible grace.

Resisting

RESIST'ING, participle present tense withstanding; opposing.

Resisting medium, a substance which opposes the passage of a body through it.

Resistive

RESIST'IVE, adjective Having the power to resist.

Resistless

RESIST'LESS, adjective

1. That cannot be effectually opposed or withstood; irresistible.

Resistless in her love as in her hate.

2. That cannot resist; helpless.

Resistlessly

RESIST'LESSLY, adverb So as not to be opposed or denied.

Resold

RESOLD, participle passive of resell. Sold a second time, or sold after being bought.

Resoluble

RES'OLUBLE, adjective s as z. [re and Latin solubilis. See Resolve.]

That may be melted or dissolved; as bodies resoluble by fire.

Resolute

RES'OLUTE, adjective [The Latin resolutus has a different signification. See Resolve.]

Having a fixed purpose; determined; hence, bold; firm; steady; constant in pursuing a purpose.

Edward is at hand, ready to fight; therefore be resolute

Resolutely

RES'OLUTELY, adverb

1. With fixed purpose; firmly; steadily; with steady perseverance. Persist resolutely in a course of virtue.

2. Boldly; firmly.

Some of these facts he examines, some be resolutely denies.

Resoluteness

RES'OLUTENESS, noun Fixed purpose; firm determination; unshaken firmness.

Resolution

RESOLU'TION, noun [Latin resolutio. See Resolve.]

1. The act, operation or process of separating the parts which compose a complex idea or a mixed body; the act of reducing any compound or combination to its component parts; analysis; as the resolution of complex ideas; the resolution of any material substance by chimical operations.

2. The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution of difficult questions in moral science.

3. Dissolution; the natural process of separating the component parts of bodies.

4. In music, the resolution of a dissonance, is the carrying of it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord.

5. In medicine, the disappearing of any tumor without coming to suppuration; the dispersing of inflammation.

6. Fixed purpose or determination of mind; as a resolution to reform our lives; a resolution to undertake an expedition.

7. The effect of fixed purpose; firmness, steadiness or constancy in execution, implying courage.

They who governed the parliament, had the resolution to act those monstrous things.

8. Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution

[But this word is now seldom used to express the decision of a judicial tribunal. We use judgment, decision or decree.]

9. The determination or decision of a legislative body, or a formal proposition offered for legislative determination. We call that a resolution which is reduced to form and offered to a legislative house for consideration, and we call it a resolution when adopted. We say, a member moved certain resolutions; the house proceeded to consider the resolutions offered; they adopted or rejected the resolutions.

10. The formal determination of any corporate body, or of any association of individuals; as the resolutions of a town or other meeting.

11. In algebra, the resolution of an equation, is the same as reduction; the bringing of the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other, without destroying the equation, by which is found the value of the unknown quantity.

12. Relaxation; a weakening. obsolete

Resolutioner

RESOLU'TIONER, noun One who joins in the declaration of others. [Not in use.]

Resolutive

RES'OLUTIVE, adjective Having the power to dissolve or relax. [Not much used.]

Resolvable

RESOLV'ABLE, adjective That may be resolved or reduced to first principles.

Resolve

RESOLVE, verb transitive rezolv'. [Latin resolvo; re and solvo, to loose.]

1. To separate the component parts of a compound substance; to reduce to first principles; as, to resolve a body into its component or constituent parts; to resolve a body into its elements.

2. To separate the parts of a complex idea; to reduce to simple parts; to analyze.

3. To separate the parts of a complicated question; to unravel; to disentangle of perplexities; to remove obscurity by analysis; to clear of difficulties; to explain; as, to resolve questions in moral science; to resolve doubts; to resolve a riddle.

4. To inform to free from doubt or perplexity; as, to resolve the conscience.

RESOLVE me, stranger, whence and what you are?

5. To settle in an opinion; to make certain.

Long since we were resolv'd of your truth, your faithful service and your toil in war.

6. To confirm; to fix in constancy.

Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you for more amazement. [Unusual.]

7. To melt; to dissolve.

8. To form or constitute by resolution, vote or determination; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.

9. In music, to resolve a discord or dissonance, is to carry it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord.

10. In medicine, to disperse or scatter; to discuss; as inflammation or a tumor.

11. To relax; to lay at ease.

12. In algebra, to resolve an equation, is to bring all the known quantities to one side of the equation, and the unknown quantity to the other.

RESOLVE, verb intransitive rezolv'.

1. To fix in opinion or purpose; to determine in mind. He resolved to abandon his vicious course of life.

2. To determine by vote. The legislature resolved to receive no petitions after a certain day.

3. To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves and turns alkaline.

4. To separate into its component parts, or into distinct principles; as, water resolves into vapor; a substance resolves into gas.

5. To be settled in opinion.

Let men resolve of that as they please. [Unusual.]

RESOLVE, noun rezolv'.

1. Fixed purpose of mind; settled determination; resolution.

He strait revokes his bold resolve

2. Legal or official determination; legislative act concerning a private person or corporation, or concerning some private business. Public acts of a legislature respect the state, and to give them validity, the bills for such acts must pass through all the legislative forms. Resolves are usually private acts, and are often passed with less formality. Resolves may also be the acts of a single branch of the legislature; whereas public acts must be passed by a majority of both branches.

3. The determination of any corporation or association; resolution.

Resolved

RESOLV'ED, participle passive

1. Separated into its component parts; analyzed.

2. Determined in purpose; as, I am resolved not to keep company with gamesters. This phrase is properly, 'I have resolved; ' as we say, a person is deceased, or has deceased; he is retired, or has retired. In these phrases, the participle is rather an adjective.

3. Determined officially or by vote.

Resolvedly

RESOLV'EDLY, adverb With firmness of purpose.

Resolvedness

RESOLV'EDNESS, noun Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution.

Resolvent

RESOLV'ENT, noun That which has the power of causing solution. In medicine, that which has power to disperse inflammation and prevent the suppuration of tumors; a discutient.

Resolver

RESOLV'ER, noun One that resolves or forms a firm purpose.

Resolving

RESOLV'ING, participle present tense Separating into component parts; analyzing; removing perplexities or obscurity; discussing, as tumors; determining.

RESOLV'ING, noun The act of determining or forming a fixed purpose; a resolution.

Resonance

RES'ONANCE, noun s as z. [Latin resonans.]

1. A resounding; a sound returned from the sides of a hollow instrument of music; reverberated sound or sounds.

2. A sound returned.

Resonant

RES'ONANT, adjective [Latin resonans; re and sono, to sound.] Resounding; returning sound; echoing back.

Resorb

RESORB', verb transitive [Latin resorbeo; re and sorbeo, to drink in.] To swallow up.

Resorbent

RESORB'ENT, adjective Swallowing up.

Resort

RESORT', verb intransitive s as z.

1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake.

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

2. To go; to repair.

The people resort to him again. Mark 10:1. John 18:20.

3. To fall back.

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. obsolete

RESORT', noun

1. The act of going to or making application; a betaking one's self; as a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion.

2. Act of visiting.

Join with me to forbid him her resort

3. Assembly; meeting.

4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as a place of resort

5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.

6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. [Not in use.]

Last resort ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

Resorter

RESORT'ER, noun One that resorts or frequents.

Resorting

RESORT'ING, participle present tense Going; having recourse; betaking; frequenting.

Resound

RESOUND', verb transitive s as z. [Latin resono; re and sono, to sound.]

1. To send back sound; to echo.

And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.

2. To sound; to praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments.

3. To praise; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

The man for wisdom; s various arts renown'd, long exercis'd in woes, O muse, resound

RESOUND', verb intransitive

1. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound; as, common fame resounds back to them.

2. To be much and loudly mentioned.

RE'SOUND, verb transitive [re and sound; with the accent on the first syllable.] To sound again.

RESOUND', noun s as z. Return of sound; echo.

Resounded

RESOUND'ED, participle passive Echoed; returned, as sound; celebrated.

Resounding

RESOUND'ING, participle present tense Echoing; returning, as sound.

Resource

RESOURCE, noun

1. Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which a person may resort for assistance, safety or supply; means yet untried; resort. An enterprising man finds resources in his own mind.

Pallas view'd his foes pursuing and his friends pursu'd, used threat'nings mix'd with prayers, his last resource

2. Resources, in the plural, pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies. Our national resources for carrying on war are abundant. Commerce and manufactures furnish ample resources.

Resourceless

RESOURCELESS, adjective Destitute of resources. [A word not to be countenanced.]

Resow

RESOW, verb transitive preterit tense resowed; participle passive resowed or resown. [re and sow.] To sow again.

Resowed

RESOWED,

RESOWN, participle passive Sown anew.

Resown

RESOWN, pp. Sown anew.

Respeak

RESPE'AK, verb transitive preterit tense respoke; participle passive respoken, respoke. [re and speak.

1. To answer; to speak in return; to reply. [Little used.]

2. To speak again; to repeat.

Respect

RESPECT', verb transitive [Latin respecto, or respectus, from respicio; re and specio, to view.]

1. To regard; to have regard to in design or purpose.

In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground for fruits, trees and herbs.

2. To have regard to, in relation or connection; to relate to. The treaty particularly respects our commerce.

3. To view or consider with some degree of reverence; to esteem as possessed of real worth.

I always loved and respected Sir William.

4. To look towards.

Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the south. [Not in use.]

To respect the person, to suffer the opinion or judgment to be influenced or biased by a regard to the outward circumstances of a person, to the prejudice of right and equity.

Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor. Leviticus 19:15.

Neither doth God respect any person. 2 Samuel 14:14.

RESPECT', noun [Latin respectus.]

1. Regard; attention.

2. That estimation or honor in which men hold the distinguished worth or substantial good qualities of others. It expresses less than reverence and veneration, which regard elders and superiors; whereas respect may regard juniors and inferiors.

RESPECT regards the qualities of the mind, or the actions which characterize those qualities.

Seen without awe, and serv'd without respect

3. That deportment or course of action which proceeds from esteem; regard; due attention; as, to treat a person with respect

These same men treat the sabbath with little respect

4. Good will; favor.

The Lord had respect to Abel and his offering. Genesis 4:4.

5. Partial regard; undue bias to the prejudice of justice; as the phrase, respect of persons. 1 Peter 1:17. James 2:1. Proverbs 24:23.

6. Respected character; as persons of the best respect in Rome.

7. Consideration; motive in reference to something.

Whatever secret respects were likely to move them -

8. Relation; regard; reference; followed by of, but more properly by to.

They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the benefits men received from him, had several titles.

Respectability

RESPECTABIL'ITY, noun State or quality of being respectable; the state or qualities which deserve or command respect.

Respectable

RESPECT'ABLE, adjective

1. Possessing the worth or qualities which deserve or command respect; worth of esteem and honor; as a respectable citizen; respectable company.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable

2. In popular language, this word is much used to express what is moderate in degree of excellence on in number, but not despicable. We say, a respectable discourse or performance, a respectable audience, a respectable number of citizens convened.

Respectableness

RESPECT'ABLENESS, noun Respectability.

Respectably

RESPECT'ABLY, adverb

1. With respect; more generally, in a manner to merit respect.

2. Moderately, but in a manner not to be despised.

Respected

RESPECT'ED, participle passive Held in honorable estimation.

Respecter

RESPECT'ER, noun One that respects; chiefly used in the phrase, respecter of persons, which signifies a person who regards the external circumstances of others in his judgment, and suffers his opinion to be biased by them, to the prejudice of candor, justice and equity.

I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34.