Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-SUB-LIM-ED, pp.

Sublimed a second time.

RE-SUB-LIM-ING, ppr.

Subliming again.

RE-SU-DA'TION, n. [L. resudatus, resudo; re and sudo, to sweat.]

The act of sweating again.

RE-SULT', n.

1. Resilience; act of flying back. Sound is produced between the string and the air, by the return of the result of the string. Bacon.
2. Consequence; conclusion; inference; effect; that which proceeds naturally or logically from facts, premises or the state of things; as, the result of reasoning; the result of reflection; the result of a consultation or council; the result of a legislative debate.
3. Consequence or effect. The misery of sinners will be the natural result of their vile affections and criminal indulgences. – J. Lathrop.
4. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; as, the result of an ecclesiastical council. – New England.

RE-SULT', v.i. [s as z. Fr. resulter; L. resulto, resilio; re and salio, to leap.]

1. To leap back; to rebound. The huge round stone, resulting with a bound. – Pope.
2. To proceed, spring or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation or meditation. Evidence results from testimony, or from a variety of concurring circumstances; pleasure results from friendship; harmony results from certain accordances of sounds. Pleasure and peace naturally result from a holy and good life. – Tillotson.
3. To come to a conclusion or determination. The council resulted in recommending harmony and peace to the parties.

RE-SULT'ANCE, n.

The act of resulting.

RE-SULT'ANT, n.

In mechanics, a force which is the combined effect of two or more forces, acting in different directions.

RE-SULT'ING, ppr.

1. Proceeding as a consequence, effect or conclusion of something; coming to a determination.
2. In law, resulting use, is a use which returns to him who raised it, after its expiration or during the impossibility of vesting in the person intended.

RE-SUM-A-BLE, a. [s as z. from resume.]

That may be taken back, or that may be taken up again.

RE-SUME, v.t. [s as z. L. resumo; re and sumo, to take.]

1. To take back what has been given. The sun, like this from which our sight we have, / Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave. – Denham.
2. To take back what has been taken away. They resume what has been obtained fraudulently. – Davenant.
3. To take again after absence; as, to resume a seat. Reason resulted her place, and passion fled. – Dryden.
4. To take up again after interruption; to begin again; as, to resume an argument or discourse. [This a now its most frequent use.]

RE-SUM-ED, pp.

Taken back; taken again; begun again after interruption.

RE-SUM-ING, ppr.

Taking back; taking again; beginning again after interruption.

RE-SUM'MON, v.t.

1. To summon or call again.
2. To recall; to recover. – Bacon.

RE-SUM'MON-ED, pp.

Summoned again; recovered.

RE-SUM'MON-ING, ppr.

Recalling; recovering.

RE-SUMP'TION, n. [Fr. from L. resumptus.]

The act of resuming, taking back or taking again; as, the resumption of a grant.

RE-SUMP'TIVE, a.

Taking back or again.

RE-SU'PIN-ATE, a. [L. resupinatus, resupino; re and supino, supinus, lying on the back.]

In botany, reversed; turned upside down. A resupinate corol is when the upper lip faces the ground, and the lower lip the sky. A resupinate leaf is when the upper surface becomes the lower, and the contrary; or when the lower disk looks upward. – Martyn. Lee.

RE-SUP-IN-A'TION, n. [supra.]

The state of lying on the back; the state of being resupinate or reversed, as a corol.

RE-SU'PINE, a.

Lying on the back.

RES-UR-REC'TION, n. [s as z. Fr. from L. resurrectus, resurgo; re and surgo, to rise.]

A rising again; chiefly, the revival of the dead of the human race, or their return from the grave, particularly at the general judgment. By the resurrection of Christ we have assurance of the future resurrection of men. – 1 Pet. i. In the resurrection, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. – Matth. xxii.

RES-UR-REC'TION-IST, n.

One whose business is to steal bodies from the grave.

RE-SUR'VEY, n.

A second survey.

RE-SUR-VEY, v.t. [re and survey.]

To survey again or anew; to review. – Shak.

RE-SUR-VEY-ED, pp.

Surveyed again.