reseizer

[Eng. reseiz(e); -er.] One who seizes again. re-seizure, s . [Prefix re-, and English seizure (q. v.).] The act of seizing again; a second seizure. "I moved to have a reseizure of the lands of George More, a relapsed recusant, a fugitive, and a practicing traytor."-Bacon: Letter to Cecil. re-sěll', v . t . [Pref. re-, and English sell (q. v.).] To sell again or a second time. *rě-şěm-bla-ble, a . [Old French.] Capable or admitting of being compared; comparable. "For man of soule reasonable, Is to an angell resemblable ." Gower: C. A. (Prol.) rě-şěm-blance, *re-sem-blaunce, s. [0. Fr. resemblance.) [RESEMBLE.] 1. The quality or state of resembling or being like; likene , similitude; similarity either of external form or of qualities. 2. That which resembles or is like something else; a likene , a similitude, a representation. "Then beautie, which was made to represent The great Creator's own resemblance bright." Spenser: F. Q., IV. viii. 32. *3. Likelihood, probability. "What likelihood is that? not resemblance , but a certainty."-Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iv. 2. trě-şěm-blant, a. [O. Fr., pr. par. of resembler =to resemble (q. v.).) Resembling; exhibiting resemblance. 3431 rě-şěm-ble, v . t . & i . [O. Fr. resembler (Fr. res sembler ), from re -again, and sembler =to seem, to resemble, from Lat. simco , simulo to imitate, to copy; similis = like; Sp. resemblar ; Ital. risem brare , ra embrare .] A. Transitive : *1. To imitate, to counterfeit, to copy. "The rusticity in clowns that he [Aris toph anes] resem bleth is not natural."- P . Hotland : Piutarch , p. 774. 2. To be like; to have likene or similarity to, in form, figure, er qualities. "If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that."-Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iii. 1. *3. To represent as like something else; to compare, to liken. "Th' other, al yclad in garments light, He did resemble to his lady bright." Spenser: F. C., III. x. 21. *B. In trans.: To be suitable, fit, or proper. "Good actions still must be maintain'd with good, As bodies nourished with resembling food." Dryden: Poem on the Coronation , 78. rě-şěm-blēr, s. [English resembl(e); -er.] One who or that which resembles. He would have the name to eat the resemblers of man's voice." P. Holland: Pliny, bk. x., ch. li. rě-şěm-bling, pr . par . or a . [RESEMBLE.] re-şěm-bling-ly, adv . [Eng. resembling; -ly.] In a resembling manner; so as to resemble; similarly. *re-sem-In-āte, v . t . [Pref. re- , and Eng. semin ate (q. v.).] To propagate again; to produce again by seed. "Concerning its [Phoenix] generation, that without all conjunction it begets and reseminates itself."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. xii. re-send', v. t. [Pref.re-, and Eng. send (q. v.).] To send again or back. "I sent to her, by this same coxcomb, Tokens and letters, which she did resend." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well , iii. 6. rě-şěnt', v . t . & i. [O. Fr. resentir (Fr. re entir ) = (1) to be sensible of a thing; (2) to resent: re-= again, and sentir =to feel, from Lat. sentio ; Sp. & Port.resentir; Ital. risen tire .] A. Transitive : *1. To scent again, to scent. *2. To have a feeling of what has been done to us; to be sensible of; to have a perception of; to perceive. *3. To feel sensibly; to be affected by. 4. To take ill; to take or consider as an injury, insult, or affront; to be provoked by; to show anger or displeasure at anything by words or acts. "Steps which Lewis resented as mortal injuries."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. ii. *5. To give back to the senses or feeling; to return. "Where does the pleasant air resent a sweeter heath?" *B. Intransitive: 1. To have a certain flavor; to savor. Drayton. "Ve els full of traditionary pottage, resenting of the wild gourd of human invention."- Fuller : Pisgah Sight , bk. iii. ch. i. 2. To be indignant, to feel resentment. "To grace her gloomy, fierce, resenting son." Pope: Homer's Iliad, viii. 451.