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resistant, a. and n.|rɪˈzɪstənt|
[a. F. résistant, pres. pple. of résister to resist. Cf. resistent.]
A. adj.
1. That makes resistance or opposition.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xvii. (1611) 159 The rending and ruine of all that were resistant. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 52 There is no resistant principle remaining, when the love of God is perfected in it. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 462 It is the essence of matter to be solid, that is, resistant and moveable. 1840Tait's Mag. VII. 389 The aristocratic..elements..are become resistant, conservative, or inactive. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. v. 252 Each portion of the ice is surrounded by a resistant mass. 1884Contemp. Rev. Oct. 528 The pressure of resistant wills now becomes incalculable.
2. That is not overcome by some disease or drug. Const. to.
1897Muir & Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. 291 An animal is shedding into the air..myriads of bacilli which may rapidly spore, and thus arrive at a very resistant stage. 1898Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1897 399 The..cross yielded the Golden Clairette, a valuable new sort [of vine], apparently highly resistant to Phylloxera. 1925Scribner's Mag. July 1/1 Genetics has made possible better strains of livestock... Disease is less to be feared because of resistant stocks. 1968New Statesman 5 Jan. 10/3 A germ which normally inhabits the intestines of a cow, for instance, but which normally doesn't harm man, could be rendered resistant, perhaps, to a whole group of antibiotics, and could then escape from the animal, and pass that resistance on to another type of germ which was dangerous to man.
3. In Comb. with preceding n.
1902[see fire-resistant adj. s.v. fire n. B. 2]. 1932[see drug-resistant adj. s.v. drug n.1 3]. 1936[see crease n.2 5]. 1947[see flame-resistant adj. s.v. flame n. 10]. 1959Times 12 Jan. 11/4 Porous, crush-proof, stress and tear-resistant and washable. 1963B.S.I. News June 8/2 Bad news for burglars was the announcement in May of a BSI specification for thief-resistant locks. 1968Times 12 Oct. 18/8 One of the organisms sometimes responsible for travellers' diarrhoea is now sulphonamide-resistant. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 34/6 (Advt.), White Ceiling Tiles all with F.R.A. (Fire Resistant Additive).
B. n.
a. One who or that which resists; a resister; spec. a member of a resistance movement. Cf. résistant.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 2 The thunder-bolt fell vpon the afflicted Priests.., striking all resistants with Ecclesiasticall censures. 1659Pearson Creed vi. 577 According to the degrees of power in the Agent and the Resistant, is an action perform'd or hindered. 1828–32in Webster. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. liii/1 The most powerful resistant of acids or acid gases. 1903Westm. Gaz. 3 June 7/1 To issue summonses against Nonconformist passive resistants. 1944Ann. Reg. 1943 172 To the injury of the United Nations and the French resistants. 1948W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xxxv. 273 Mademoiselle..had been one of the true Resistants, refusing even in the blackest hours of the war to admit even the possibility of defeat, or to allow pessimism among the peasants. 1959Sunday Times 22 Mar. 23/7 A disguised and wounded Hungarian resistant.
b. In calico-printing, = resist n. 2.
1879Spons' Encycl. Manuf. i. 50 The first crops of citric acid crystals..are used largely by the calico-printer as a ‘resistant’ for iron and alumina mordants.
Hence † reˈsistantly adv., resistingly. Obs.—1
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. x. (1614) 19/1 Brightrik..sent the Steward of his house to know their intents, whom resistantly they slew. |