rest (1), reste

[A. S. rest, ræst, cogn. with Dut. rust; Dan. & Sw. rast; Icel. röst the distance between two resting-places, a stage; Goth.rasta=a stage of a journey, a mile; O. H. Ger. rasta rest; Ger. rast; Ital. rest a.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The state of being in quiet or repose; ce ation of bodily or mental labor or exertion; release from exertion or action; quiet, repose. "So forth she rode, without repose or rest." Spenser: F. Q., III. iv. 6. 2. Sleep, slumber. "God give you good rest ."-Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iv. 3. 3. Hence, fig, or poet., the last sleep; death; the grave; as, He has gone to his rest . 4. Freedom from anything which disturbs, disquiets, or hara es; peace, tranquility, quiet. "And the land had rest forty years." -Judges iii. 11. 5. A place of quiet and repose; a permanent peaceful habitation. "Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest ."- Psalm xcv. 11. *6. Stay, abode, residence. "In Tarsus was not best Longer for him to make his rest." Shakesp.: Pericles , ii. (Prol.) 7. That on which anything leans, lies, or is placed for support; a support. [11. 1, 2, 3, 5.] "He made narrowed rests round about, that the beame should not be fastened in the beams of the house."1 Kings vi. 6. *8. A syllable. ( Ben Jonson .) *9. A set, game, or match at tennis. Give us a rest : A slang phrase equivalent to "Leave off, you make me tired." II. Technically : 1. Arm.: A support for a lance or spear. "Rushing, ten you sand horsemen came, With spears in rest , and hearts on flame." Scott: Lord of the Isles, vi. 24. 2. Billiards : A support for the top of the cue, when the player cannot reach sufficiently far to pa. par of respondeo =to respond (q.v.); O. Spanish res pons i on: Ital. res pons i one .] 1. The act of answering; response, reply, answer. bk. iii., No. 21. "Responsions unto the questions."- Burnet : Records, 2. ( Pl .): At Oxford (England) University, the first examination of a candidate for a degree. Also called the Little-go (q. v.). IMG:content-0524.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-0525.png:[blocks in formation] *rěs-tâu-rāte, v . t . [Lat. restauratus , pa. par. of restauro .] To restore. "If one repulse has us quite ruinated, And fortune never can be rest aurated." rěst-ing, pr . par.ora. [REST (1), v.] resting-owing, a. 1. Remaining due. (Said of a debt.) 2. Indebted. (Said of a debtor.) "Rest full peas."- Fabyan : Chronycle (an. 1364). 2. Giving rest or peace. "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry." Shakesp.: Sonnet 65. rěst-fül-ly, adv . [Eng. restful ; -ly.] In a rest- ful manner; quietly, peacefully. "Living restfully and in health."- Elyot : Governor, IMG:content-0526.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Entom.: A geometer moth, Aplasta on on aria. The caterpillar feeds in April and September on On on is spinosa; the moth flies in May, July, and August. rěst-house, s. [Eng. rest (1), and house.] An empty house for the accommodation of travelers; a choultry or serai. ( East Indian .) I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of replacing or restoring that which is lost or has been taken away. The act of restoring to a person some thing or right of which he has been unjustly deprived. "By common law there was no restitution of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the crown only."-Black stone: Comment ., bk. iv., ch. 27. 2. The act of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any lo , damage, or injury; indemnification. (Generally with the verb to make .) "If the sun be risen upon him there shall be blood shed for him; for he shall make full restitution ." - Exodus xxii. 3. 3. That which is given or paid in return for something lost, taken away, injured, or destroyed; satisfaction made. 4. The recovery of a former state or posture; the return of elastic bodies forcibly bent or compre ed to their original state. II. Law : The putting a person in po e ion of lands or tenements of which he has been unlawfully di eized. (1).1 (1) Restitution of all things: [RESTORATION, (2) Restitution of conjugal rights : Law : (See extract.) IMG:content-0527.png:[blocks in formation] History: An edict published A. D. 1629 by the Emperor Ferdinand II., ordering the Protestants to deliver up to the Roman Catholic authorities all ecclesiastical property which had fallen into their hands since the religious peace of Pa au established in the previous century. In 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years War, the edict was revoked. Rěs-ti-tū-tion-Ists, s. pl . [English restitution ; pl. suff. -ists .] Eccles. & Church Hist.: A religious sect which has recently sprung up in New England. They believe that what man lost in the fall is now beginning to be restored, and that everything is to come back to its original form and purity. Their Sabbath, therefore, occurs on Saturday, as the original day of worship; and their meetings are held Friday evening, because it is Sabbath eve.