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reassume, v.|riːəˈsjuːm|
[f. re- 5 a + assume v. Cf. Sp. reasumir, Pg. reassumir, It. riassumere. See also resume v., with which this word formerly coincided in many of its senses.]
1. trans. To take, or take up, again (a material thing laid down or handed to another).
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 319 Pandulph toke y⊇ Crowne of the Kynge,..y⊇ Kynge reassumyd the Crowne of Pandulph. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. xxi. 70 Beware him, as an Enemie, apt to re-assume his Armes. 1679New Advice in Roxb. Ball. (1883) IV. 548 Painter, once more thy Pencil reassume. a1766F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph V. 44, I shall break off here, and shall re-assume my pen in the evening. 1848C. C. Clifford tr. Aristophanes, Frogs 18 No nonsense, Xanthias; reassume your pack.
b. To revoke, take back (a grant, gift, etc.).
1609Daniel Civ. Wars iii. lxxxix, His successour..did reuocate And re-assume his liberalities. 1675H. Nevile Machiavelli's Prince vii. Wks. 209 Lest the next Pope should..reassume all that Alexander had given him. 1726Pope Odyss. xvi. 476 She waves her golden wand, and reassumes From ev'ry feature every grace that blooms. 1792C. Smith Desmond I. 129 What then should prevent a nation from re-assuming grants? 1816Scott Antiq. xviii, His lands..lay waste till they were re⁓assumed by the emperor as a lapsed fief.
†c. To rescind, recall (a vote). Obs.
1685S. Sewall Diary 22 Oct., Deputies reassume their vote as to the treasurer, and consent with the magistrates. 1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) II. 128 The Lieut. Governour..told them except they did Re-assume that Vote..they should sit there till the next Spring.
2. a. To take back (a person) into close relationship with oneself.
1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 13 The seuerity which the Church vsed towards them,..and her bitternesse and auersenes, from re-assuming them, euen after long penances, into her bosome. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlvi. (1739) 76 He reseized and reassumed the English, in partnership with the Norman in their ancient right of Government. 1667Milton P.L. x. 225 Into his blissful bosom reassum'd In glory as of old.
b. To take back (a thing) as a constituent part.
1692Ray Disc. ii. ii. (1732) 74 Carried off by the rivers and reassumed by the sea. 1741Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 22 The Marrow..is reassumed into the Mass of Blood. 1883Cath. Dict. (1897) 744/1 St. Thomas says..that all the particles of blood which Christ shed in his Passion were reassumed by him in His resurrection.
3. To take again upon oneself:
a. a shape or form, a garb or something worn.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 31 By the bankes of Nilus re⁓assumed her humane shape. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 221 The..Steward of houshold.. caused him to reassume his apparell. 1719J. T. Philipps tr. Thirty-four Confer. 283 At the great Day of Accompts the Souls shall re-assume their former Bodies. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton II. 271, I could again be weak enough..to reassume those rosy fetters. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xii. 304 Then the birds, again transfigured, Reassumed the shape of mortals. 1873B. Stewart Conserv. Force §157 The heat thus spent reassumes the form of molecular motion.
b. a charge, office, exercise of power, etc.
1632Sir T. Hawkins tr. Mathieu's Unhappy Prosp. i. 24 Hee should re-assume the charge [which] had beene taken from him. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. (1851) 25 Elidure now in his own behalf re-assumes the Government. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 162 After Henry the VIIIth had re-assum'd the Supremacy. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child Nat. II. 245 At last, reason reassumed her empire. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. III. i. 58 The tyranny of heaven none may retain, Or reassume, or hold. 1885M. Arnold in Pall Mall G. 3 Nov. 3/2 To reassume an office at sixty-two is not the same thing as to assume it at thirty-two.
c. a character, attribute, quality, feeling, etc.
1632Massinger Maid of Hon. v. ii, I conjure you To re-assume your order [of knighthood]. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion xii. 23 Little and little he began to reassume his Spirits. 1671A. Behn Forc'd Marriage i. iii, Go, re⁓assume your beauty; dry your eyes. 1712Steele Spect. No. 432 ⁋4 These little Republicks reassume their National Hatred to each other. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apol. IV. 37 Upon rejoining the company, he reassumed his good humour and politeness. 1810Southey Kehama xxiv. iv, Then did the Man-God re-assume His unity. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 482 The quality of reassuming turgescence on excitement.
d. a right, title, name, etc.
1660T. M. Hist. Independ. iv. 101 The Lords (who had now reassumed their Native right by taking their places in the higher House). 1761Gray Odin 92 Night Has re⁓assum'd her ancient right. 1813Eustace Class. Tour (1821) IV. 328 Whether Italy be destined to re-assume her honors. 1830Lytton P. Clifford xxxiii, He had re-assumed his hereditary name. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia vi. 114 They re-assumed the title of Dahi.
e. refl. To return to one's natural character.
1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 149 Then Reassume yourself, forbear to Doat. 1811Henry & Isabella I. 168 She instantly combated what she considered an ungenerous suspicion, and reassumed herself.
f. absol. To take office again. Obs. rare.
1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) II. 3 Soon after this was the Revolution, and the other Government Re-assumed.
4. To take, resume (one's place) again.
1640in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 45 Mr. Solicitor..reassumed the Chair again. 1670Dryden Conq. Granada i. ii, But now my Reason re-assumes its Throne. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 84 The scatter'd Atoms of each humane Mold..Shall..re-assume in Men their pristine site. 1789C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) IV. 131 Again reassuming his place at the breakfast-table. 1821Shelley Ess. & Lett. (1852) II. 255 We could easily reassume our station with the spring at Pugnano or the baths. 1841Clough Poems (1862) 8 The day may come I yet may re-assume My place.
5. To recommence, take up again, resume:
†a. speech, discourse, thought, a subject, etc.
Very common in the 17th and 18th centuries.
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 818 After the Iewes had made answere..the Lord presently reassumeth that speech. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 102 They might afterwards re-assume their delightful conversation. 1682Vernon Life Heylin 183 He again re-assumes the Argument and confutes all that Bellarmin and others produce for it. 1715–6Town Talk No. 4 Mr. Arthur reassumed the discourse. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sc. i. 11 We will re-assume the Subject of the Ptolomaic System.
b. a practice, action, occupation, etc.
Common in the 17th and 18th centuries.
1624Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 244 A thing prohibited in the councell of Laodicea, but re-assumed, and long time frequented in the Church. a1641― Acts & Mon. (1642) 144 They re-assumed the work upon warrant of Cyrus his former Edict. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 492 Those kind of Spectacles were already over, and not to be reassumed the same day. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans III. 12 Our company reassumed their march; and..arrived in good time. 1791C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) I. 220 To quiet the perturbation of her mind by re-assuming her usual occupations. 1824in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825) 508 Mary Stuart having brought some superb diamonds into France, the ladies of the Court re-assumed the wear of them.
†c. With inf. Obs. rare.
1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 313, I re-assume to personate a wounded conscience.
†d. intr. To resume, continue speaking, after a pause. Obs.
1719J. T. Philipps tr. Thirty-four Confer. 32 Then they re-assumed and said. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. II. 110 Case of Conscience, I own it is necessary, re-assumed the master of the hotel, that [etc.]. 1796C. Smith Marchmont I. 60 ‘Ah, my dear love!’ reassumed this admirable woman, after a short pause.
†6. To repeat. Obs. rare.
1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 17, I re-assume that your exposition is meerely a dreame. 1684T. Hockin God's Decrees 353 Here give me leave to re-assume that great Apostolical caution.
Hence reaˈssuming vbl. n.
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 120 The voluntary resigning and the reassuming of my life. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. v. (1674) 5 In the Venetian Common-wealth, those reformations of Government, those re-assumings of State were never seen. |