resultful (rezultful)

[ 5118 the resumption of a grant; specifically, in law, the taking again by the state of such lands or tenements, etc., as on false suggestion or other error had been granted by letters patent. This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of which we spake before (prolepsis), because of the resump tion of a former proposition vttered in general i tie to explane the same better by a particular diuision. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 184. A general act of resumption was pa ed, by which all the grants made since the king's acce ion were annulled. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 345. Specifically-2. In U. S. hist . and politics , the result i vet (rē-zul'tiv), a . [ result + -ive .] Rereturn to specie payments by the government. It [Concord] became. the source of our most result ful thought. Stedman , Poets of America, p. 139. sultant. IMG:content-2102.png:[blocks in formation] resume (rē-zūm'), v.; pret. and pp. resumed, ppr. resuming. [ resumere, take again, resume, sumere, take: see a ume, and cf. consume, de sume, insume, presume.] I. trans. 1. To take again; take back. It pleased the diuine will to resume him vnto himselfe, whither both his and euery other high and noble minde haue alwayes aspired. Quoted in Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), [Forewords, p. vii. We that have conquered still, to save the conquered,. More proud of reconcilement than revenge, Resume into the late state of our love Worthy Cordelius Gallus and Tibullus. The "more money" that is cried for, silver or shinplas. ter, is not the needed thing. It is. loanable capital, now paralyzed with distrust by delayed resumption and imminent silver swindles. N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 170. Act of Resumption, or Resumption Act, a title of several English statutes of Henry VI., by which he took and granted by him, and annulled such grants. - Resumption resumed po e ion of offices, property, etc., previously Act, a United States statute of 1875 (18 Stat., 296), providing for the payment of United States treasury notes in coin after January 1st, 1879. [= F. ré resumptive (re-zump'tiv), a. and n. somptif = Sp. resuntivo = Pg. resumptivo = It. resuntivo, II. n. A restoring medicine; a restorative. Bailey, 1731. [Rare.] resupinate (re-sup i-nāt), a. [= F. résup iné = Sp . Pg.res up in a do , L.res up in at us , pp. of resupi nare, bend or turn back, overthrow, B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. res up in a ted (rē-sū ́pi-nā-ted), a. [ IMG:content-2103.png:[blocks in formation] The le ee [in New South Wales] was, however, given a preferential right of obtaining an annual occupation license for the resumed area, which entitled him to use the land for grazing purposes, although not to the exclu a better tenure. sion of any person who might be in a position to acquire Sir C. W. Dilke, Probs, of Greater Britain, ii. 2. 3. To take up again after interruption; begin again: as, to resume an argument or a discourse; to resume specie payments. Here the archangel paused,. Then, with transition sweet, new speech resumes . Milton , P. L., xii. 5. The gods stand round him [Apollo] as he mourns, and pray He would resume the conduct of the day, Nor let the world be lost in endle night. Add is on, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. 4t. To take; a ume. [Rare.] IMG:content-2104.png:[blocks in formation] II. in trans . To proceed after interruption, as in a speech: chiefly used in the introduc tory phrase to resume. résumé (rā-zü-mā′), n. [ résumé , a summary, résumé , pp. of résumer , sum up, resume: see resume .] A summing up; a recapitulation; a condensed statement; a summary. résumé (rā-zü-mā'), v. t. [ +-ed2.] Same as resupinate.