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reˈsigned, ppl. a.
[f. resign v.1 + -ed1.]
†1. With up. Given up, abandoned, surrendered.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 221 The receiving a resign'd up Mistriss, is like losing a life for a Friend. Ibid. 638 He shipt his Army for Italy in the resigned-up Fleet of the Pontick King.
2. Full of resignation; submissive, acquiescent.
1699Collier Def. Short View 44, I wonder at his being so Resign'd. What, not care to have stark Nonsense found upon him! 1757Gray Mrs. Clarke 7 In agony, in death resign'd. 1812J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 276 Though ever lost to human kind And all they love, they are resign'd. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 170 Anne..assumed the interesting character of a meek, resigned sufferer. 1894Wolseley Marlborough I. 284 Sufficiently philosophical to be resigned, he was yet too ambitious to be contented.
Comb.1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 294 A sad, grey, resigned-looking, suffering woman.
b. Const. to.
1747Mem. Nutrebian Crt. II. 91 Resigned to death with the heroick firmness of a primitive christian. 1781Cowper Charity 151 To deep sadness sullenly resign'd. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. i. ii. 43 Calm, but not overcast, he stood resign'd To the decree. 1838Lytton Alice ii. ii, Evelyn..had grown in some measure reconciled and resigned to her change of abode.
c. Characterized by resignation.
1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. iii, He should insist on the most resigned obedience from his daughter. 1833Tennyson Two Voices 98 Thought resign'd, A healthy frame, a quiet mind. 1885J. K. Jerome On the Stage 111 A limp horse that..looked the picture of resigned misery.
3. That has retired from a position.
1896Daily News 11 Mar. 4/7 A major..has threatened an action for libel against one of the resigned officers. |