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resilient, a.|rɪˈzɪlɪənt|
[ad. L. resilient-em, pres. pple. of resilīre to resile.]
1. Returning to the original position; springing back, recoiling, etc. Also, looking back.
1644Bulwer Chiron. 43 The hand resilient or leapeing back to the Northward of the Body. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Resilient, leaping back, rebounding, or recoiling. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 191 Absorbing what he calls the resilient pulsations of sound. 1839–48Bailey Festus xxx. 345 The soul in death resilient Looks back to whence its impulse came. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley III. iv. 60 Never yet looked horse through bridle, without at least one eye resilient towards the charm of headstall.
b. resilient escapement, a form of lever escapement used in watches.
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 369/2 Another modification, called ‘Cole's resilient’, consists in the bending of the extreme points of the teeth back [etc.]. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 150 Mr. J. F. Cole devised a resilient escapement without any banking pins.
2. Resuming the original shape or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
1674Petty Disc. Roy. Soc. 122, I think it easiest to consider Elastic, Springing, or Resilient Bodies, as Laminæ, Laths, or Lines. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 89 The fibrils of the resilient part of the nerve. 1859Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 287/2 The power of the heart is materially reinforced by the resilient structure which composes the parietes of the aortic bulb. 1873Contemp. Rev. XXII. 181 His conscience consolidates itself, the original fibres grow firmer, more massive, and more resilient.
b. resilient stricture (see quot.).
1874Van Buren Dis. Genit. Organs 102 A resilient stricture is one which..is elastic, India-rubber like, contracting quickly after being dilated. 1891Moulin Surg. ii. xxiii. 1273.
3. fig. Of persons, their minds, etc.: Rising readily again after being depressed; hence, cheerful, buoyant, exuberant.
1830Fraser's Mag. II. 90 One vast receptacle for the abode of resilient and noisy saints like unto himself. 1859S. R. Hole Tour Irel. 30 Nothing but..the resilient spirit of roving Englishmen could have induced us to sally forth. 1870J. Hamilton Moses, Man of God viii. 150 Resolute and resilient is the stout heart of the sinner.
Hence reˈsilientness, ‘rebounding Quality, Resiliency’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1727). |