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resister|rɪˈzɪstə(r)|
Also 5 resistour.
[f. resist v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who resists. Cf. also passive resister s.v. passive resistance.
1375Barbour Bruce xviii. 214 Quhen the feld wes clengit cleyne, Sa that na resisteris wes seyne. 1459Rolls of Parlt. II. 370/1 Lyve and dye with the said Erle, ayenst his resistours. 1558Goodman How to Obey 176 To counte your selues therin no rebells, but lawfull resisters. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love Heret. Affirm. b ij b, Disputation..with the unwillyng ones and resisters. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1623) 1158 [They] slew no small numbers of their resisters. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1677) 29 To resist the truth which is..believed by the resister himself is a direct contradiction. 1710A. B. Answ. to Argts. Bp. Oxford's Resistance 18 That they never consider'd the Matter at all, and therefore assisted these Resisters. 1832Examiner 97/1 The resisters of an exaction. 1873Smiles Huguenots France vi. (1881) 100 The resisters of the policy were in both cases Calvinists.
b. spec. A member of a resistance movement; a resistant. Also with capital initial.
1952Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 66/2 But all three of them, when they were drunk, believed themselves to have been the most stout-hearted Resisters, members of the Underground. 1959Encounter Aug. 45/1 The treatment accorded to the records of the Résistance is especially entertaining... Thousands of Resisters wrote their personal recollections. 1966M. R. D. Foot SOE in France vi. 129 In Greece and in Yugoslavia SOE sought to back any anti-German bodies of resisters.
2. That which resists; a resisting body or force.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1724) II. 575 Philoclea's shamefacedness and humbleness were as strong resisters as choler and disdain. 1596T. Johnson Cornucopiæ B j b, Organy and Rue are great resisters of poyson. 1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 73 If a Moveable be struck violently against a hard resister. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 28 If Warmth be the producer of Moisture, Cold must be the Resister. 1759Phil. Trans. LI. 84 You see, that animal, vegetable, and metallic bodies..are easily changed into resisters or non-conductors. |