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▪ I. resort, n.|rɪˈzɔːt|
Also 4–6 resorte.
[a. OF. resort, ressort resource, aid, spring, etc., f. resortir: see next.]
I.
1. a. That to which one has recourse for aid or assistance, or in order to accomplish some end.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 134 In trowth alway to don ȝow my seruyse, As to my lady right, and cheif resorte. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 441/2 He ne kan..other resort have for salvation. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 43 Nor..do we offer this as a new Resort whereto this Report..may be thought to have driven us. 1781Cowper Hope 378 Between justice, as my prime support, And mercy, fled to as the last resort, I..steal along with heav'n in view. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiii, A knowledge of the expedients and resorts in times of hazard, which was remarkable. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 196 A fit one [sc. sledge] was not to be found, and a carriage was therefore the only resort.
†b. Means or way of escape. Obs. rare—1.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 153 Al men hit [sc. death] haue in mynde, Of that there is noone resorte.
2.
†a. The right or privilege of having final decision or appeal vested in one. Obs.
1475Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 22 To holde frely in souvereinte and resort of none creature but of God. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxii. 257 His eldest son, shulde renounce all maner of soueraynte, resorte, and rightes, that he shulde haue of any of theym.
b. Recourse to some person, thing, or expedient, for aid or assistance, for the settlement of some difficulty, or the attainment of some end.
1474Rolls of Parlt. VI. 117/2 The same persones..to have resort unto the collectours of the same xth part,..to understond..in whoos kepyng the same sommes..resten. 1659Hammond On Ps. lxi. 1 O Gratious God, to thee is my only resort. 1668–9Stillingfl. Serm. (1673) I. vii. 123 For the design that was laid for that,..we must have resort to the account that is given of it. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes ii. 73 The constant resort which is had unto them..is not without its expence. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 572 For the true idea of seisin, resort must be had to the ancient system of feudal tenures. 1884Manch. Exam. 19 June 5/1 It will be impossible to close the Committee to-night without resort to a sitting of unusual length.
c. in the last resort [after F. en dernier ressort], orig. as a judge or court from which there is no appeal; hence, as a last expedient, in the end, ultimately. (Cf. dernier b and ressort 2.)
1672Temple Ess., Gov. Wks. 1720 I. 97 All Government is a Restraint upon Liberty; and under all, the Dominion is equally Absolute, where it is in the last Resort. 1727–38Chambers Cycl., Presidial, a tribunal, or bench of judges, established..to judge ultimately, or in the last resort, of the several cases brought before them by way of appeal from the subaltern judges. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 11 Arbiters of the property of all their fellow-subjects, and that in the last resort. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 352 Life, indeed, is just the one thing..on whose disposability in the last resort..the very existence of society depends. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 121 If in the last resort it is the greatest perfection which determines the divine choice [etc.].
d. without resort, without appeal. rare—1.
1827Scott Napoleon Introd., Wks. 1870 IX. 10 The people were judges without resort.
e. court of first resort (cf. 2 c).
1863H. Cox Instit. ii. ii. 308 Parliaments relinquished much of their wonted authority as a court of first resort.
†3.
a. Opportunity for repair or access to a place.
b. Return. Obs. rare.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 68 So that the deere shall haue no resort Withyn short tyme to no maner shade. 1430–40― Bochas viii. viii. (1494) C vij, In this resort [he was] receyued..In greate noblesse by cause of that viage.
4. General or habitual repair of persons to some place or person.
a. In phr. to make (or have) resort.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 427 In suche festes peple of alle the Iewery hade resorte un to hit. 1473Rolls of Parlt. VI. 66/1 The same Marchauntes have be encoraged to make and contynue their resort unto this his Lande. 1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 353 Intending thair to mak thair resort and residence. 1577Harrison England ii. i. (1877) i. 6 Great resort also was made unto them from all places of the realme. c1611Chapman Iliad xi. 723 To th' Altars of the Gods they made diuine resorts. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. iv. §8 Many other Prophets and Seers..to whom the people made their resort.
b. Const. of (the persons resorting). † Also pl.
1470–85Malory Arthur xviii. i. 725 Syre Launcelot had many resortes of ladyes and damoysels that dayly resorted vnto hym. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 12 Those townes..where there is moste resorte and repaire of people. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 157 Resort of people doth my greefs augment. 1630E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 58 In which are many languages spoken, by reason of the resort of abundance of merchants. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1683) 139 By frequent resort of the French, who to the number of some thousands came over. 1766in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 485 Where was a great resort of French company. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India I. iii. i. 491 He patronized learning and encouraged the resort of learned men. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 543 An unrestrained and unregulated resort of persons to India for religious purposes.
c. In phr. of (great, public, etc.) resort, applied to places.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xi. 45 b, A towne of great resort aswel from the firme land as the sea. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. ii. 104 But shall all our houses of resort in the Suburbs be puld downe? 1683Brit. Spec. 104 Encouraging..to build Houses, Temples, and Places of Publick Resort. 1709Steele Tatler No. 83 ⁋1 It is my frequent Practice to visit Places of Resort in this Town. 1725Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 113 There is a large colliery of great resort. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 214 The Five Mile Act had banished him..from almost all places of public resort. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. x. (1856) 76 Their seats of favorite resort, in the early part of the season.
5.
†a. Concourse or assemblage of people. Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur vi. xvi. 209 Syre launcelot gate al his armour..and put hit vpon hym for drede of more resorte. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 777 The Protector had the resort, and the King in maner desolate. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 191 b, The Lorde Cobham (whose house you shal seeldome see without great resort). 1634Milton Comus 379 Her wings That in the various bussle of resort Were all to ruffl'd. 1700Dryden Ajax & Ulyss. 320 Secure, I enter'd through the hostile Court, Glitt'ring with steel and crowded with resort.
b. An assemblage, gathering, throng, crowd.
c1550Cheke Matt. ix. 8 And when y⊇ resort saw this yei marveild. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 9 The greate resorte to that..Edifice are of sundrie titles and degrees. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. iv. 370 Gaming-houses whither great resorts Were wont to come. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 55 For a long time the Portugals..drew a great resort hither. 1703Prior Erasm. Imit. 9 Folly with her wild Resort Of Wit and Jest disturbs the solemn Court. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 94, I daily frequented Markham's coffee-house, amidst a promiscuous resort of swords-men, literati, beaus, and politicians. 1806R. Cumberland Mem. 286 A great resort of men of talents now flocked around him.
†6.
a. Repair of one person with others or to some place. Obs.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 242 And out of Rome hes baneist Chastity, Quha with our Prelats can get na resort. 1607Shakes. Timon i. i. 127 Ioyne with me to forbid him her resort, My selfe haue spoke in vaine. 1635Heylin Sabbath ii. (1636) 18 Calvin..makes this the speciall cause of Saint Pauls resort unto the places of assembly. 1671Milton P.R. i. 367 Nor from the Heav'n of Heav'ns Hath he excluded my resort sometimes.
†b. Those with whom one associates. Obs.—1
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 42 As touching my residence and abiding heere in Naples,..my resorte and companye [etc.].
7. A place to which persons repair.
Now freq. in comb. with health, holiday, seaside, etc.
1754Young Centaur ii. Wks. 1757 IV. 140 This intellectual cloud, which hangs, like a fog, over every gay resort of our moral invalids. a1796Burns Caledonia 15 Chiefly the woods were her fav'rite resort. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. i. (1858) 18 Wherever these springs are to be found, there..must always have been the resort of wanderers in the Desert. 1883Harper's Mag. Sept. 521/1 The bustle of arrival and departure..[animates] the village in the way peculiar to American towns near a ‘resort’. 1885Manch. Exam. 10 Sept. 5/3 The houses licensed were the resort of thieves. 1893K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) ii. 30 She would become the head of a summer resort, with a billiard-room and a bowling-alley. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xviii. 294 He was manager at different times of..a dozen hotels and summer resorts, an insurance company, and a district leader's campaign. 1936[see holiday resort s.v. holiday 4]. 1976Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 14/4 The man behind the proposal described Carnforth as ‘a poor little town that could never become a health resort’.
II.
†8. ? A channel or arm (of the sea). Obs.—1
c1477Caxton Jason 68 By this yle is a resorte of the see unto an other litill yle.
†9. Mus. (Meaning uncertain.) Obs. rare—1.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xli, Duplat, triplat, diatesseriall, Sesqui altera, and decupla resortis, Diapason of mony sindrie sortis.
†10. A mechanical spring. Obs. (Cf. ressort 1.)
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 17 b/2 A resorte, or springe, because it [sc. forceps] might allwayes be aperte. 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 130 The hand..returned to its place with force, as if it had a resort or spring to force it to its proper place. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 177 The motion of the hands, what number of resorts soever it is communicated by, is originally owing to something else that first moves within.
fig.1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. cc, Pathless destiny; Whose dark resorts since prudence cannot know, In vain it would provide for what shall be. 1676― State Innoc. Pref., If you can enter more deeply..into the causes and resorts of that which moves pleasure in a reader.
III. 11. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 7) resort city, resort cottage, resort estate, resort hotel, resort-motel, resort-motor hotel, resort railroad station, resort town; resort clothes, -wear, clothes suitable for wearing at a holiday resort.
1974Sumter (S. Carolina) Daily Item 20 Apr. 1a/5 Police mounted a room-by-room sweep of hotels in this *resort city. 1978R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant viii. 93 In every resort city there was always one major shop that catered to the reading requirements of a specific nationality.
1974Country Life 2 May 1097/2 Their Côte d'Azur collection of women's *resort clothes. 1977N. Freeling Gadget i. 24 Bring more than resort clothes... Evening things, feminine.
1971Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 3 Nov. 3/1 A long debate on the merits or otherwise of licensing *resort cottages.
1975New Yorker 19 May 115 (Advt.), The Mountain View House is a *resort estate with a charm only a century of family ownership can achieve.
1919E. Hough Sagebrusher 49 A few passengers from the *resort hotel back in the town began to appear. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 778/2 Tourism is the most important industry, with a good choice of resort hotels.
1963New Yorker 1 June 123/1 (Advt.), America's most funderful *resort-motel. Ibid. 8 June 58 (Advt.), America's 3 great new resort-motor hotels.
1928Publishers' Weekly 3 Nov. 1868/1 The..delay involved when a package must change trains in a *resort railroad station.
1970Southerly XXX. 124 Occasionally a car hummed along the bitumen..making..for one of the string of *resort towns further along the coast. 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) xvi. 243 You could always tell a resort town, it ran much heavier to neon.
1965Punch 10 Mar. p. xvi/2, Harvey Nichols's spring collection, which includes Italian and French *resort-wear, can be seen on Mar 15. 1975Harper's & Queen June 69 The latest collection of resort wear.
▪ II. resort, v.1|rɪˈzɔːt|
Also 5–6 resorte, 6 reasorte.
[ad. OF. resortir (mod.F. ressortir) to rebound, retire, etc., f. re- re- + sortir to issue, go out, etc., of obscure etymology.]
†1. intr. To issue, to come out, again. Obs. rare.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xiii. 148 That Ryvere comethe towardes Ynde, undre Erthe, and resortethe [F. ressortist] in to the Lond of Altazar. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. x, The stronge poynte of his darte folded and resorted agayn.
†2.
a. To return to oneself; to revert to a former condition or custom. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 3553 When he past of his payne..And resort to hym selfe.., He plainted full pitiously. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 63 Where any wood ys, he [Eolus] shall make hyt pleyn, Yef he to hys lyberte may resorte ageyn. 1441Plumpton Corr. (Camden) p. lxi, He was long tyme afterward in dispare of his life, & shall now never resort to the bodyly strength & heale of his person that he was in before. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. (Arb.) 290 All such persons as take pleasure to shew their limbes..should be inioyned either to go starke naked, or else to resort backe to the comely and modest fashion of their owne countrie apparell.
†b. To return (to a place, or home). Obs.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 186 He is a fole that scaped is daunger,..and fled is fro prisoun, For to resorte. c1450Lovelich Grail xiv. 583 Whanne that Alle I-taken they were..He gan to Resorte to that bataylle There Seraphe fawht. a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 281 Go, litell quayre,..Home to resorte Jerobesethe perswade.
†c. To return to a subject or matter; also, to go back in a discourse or in time. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 140 But to resorte ageyn to my mateere. c1450― Secrees (E.E.T.S.) 10 Here the Translator resortith ageyn to set in a prologe. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiv. (1885) 142 It be houyth þat we nowe resorte to the poynte in wich we lafte. 1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes in Compl. Scot. (1872) 216 Bvt to resorte to our purpose, how can it stand with reason [etc.]? 1654G. Goddard Introd. Burton's Diary (1828) I. 42 Some would have resorted back again to the business of the Council, and put a full period to that. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xi. vii, He was obliged to resort above a year..back, to find any object for this unwarrantable passion.
†d. To revert or fall to one's lot or share. Obs.
1430Lydg. St. Margaret 361 Whan it falleth thei haue of me mastrie, Ageyn to me resorteth al the wrak. 1492in Somerset Med. Wills (1901) 299 If hit so happe that Johanne my doughter fortune to deye..then I will that the 40 li before to her bequeithen resorte and turne to the use and profit of all my next children then living. a1676Hale Hist. Common Law vi. (1713) 122 The Rule of Descents in Normandy was..That the Descent of the Line of the Father shall not resort to that of the Mother.
†e. To retire or retreat. Obs. rare.
c1450Merlin 391 Thei dide presse to the rescowe..and made hem resorte bakke more than a bowe draught.
†3. To turn, direct one's attention, to a subject.
c1450Lydg. Secrees 308 Till I abrayde, in purpoos to Resorte To hym that drough this processe moost devyne. 1494Fabyan Chron. 2 Of Fraunce and other I myght lyke wyse reporte.., But to Englande if I shall resorte, Ryght mysty storyes [etc.]. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. i. Wks. 1149/1 This first kinde of tribulacion haue you to my minde opened sufficiently, & therfore I pray you resort now to the second. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. v. (1588) 183, I will leave them, and resort to those other.
4. To betake oneself, to repair or go, to a person for aid. (Now only as in c.)
c1460Wisdom 942 in Macro Plays 66 Wyche be owur selff neuer may be a-mendyde With-owt Gode..; Therfor to hym let vs resort. 1494Fabyan Chron. ii. xxx. 22 Brenne..nat hauynge any comfort how he myght attayne to his former dygnyte, lastly resorted..vnto the Duke. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxlii[i]. 9 Delyuer me (o Lorde) fro myne enemies, for I resorte vnto the. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 930/2 If we will profit in the holy scripture, let vs learne to resort to our Lord Iesus Christ. 1667Poole Dial. betw. Protest. & Papist 25 Not so much as giving notice to his people who they were to whom they must resort for justice.
†b. To refer or turn to a document, book, author, etc., for information or guidance. Obs.
1439E.E. Wills (1882) 128 If ther be eny clause or matier in his olde will..to the wich it shall seme to the saide executours..for to be necessary to resorte, and to take remembraunce of. 1571Digges Pantom. i. xxxv. L ij b, Now it behoueth you to resorte to your plattes, searching out as nigh as you can by estimation the middlemost place. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. vii. (1614) 40 If any would entertaine longer dispute about this, he may..resort vnto Geropius Becanus his Gigantomachia. 1728Morgan Algiers I. Pref. v, This gentleman, to whom I often resort, has only saved me so much labour.
c. To have recourse to something for assistance or furtherance of an object.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. §21 The King thought it time to resort to other counsels. 1754Sherlock Discourses (1759) I. i. 14 Men should have other Helps to resort to, besides their own Strength and Reason. 1790Burke Fr. Revol. 84 The Revolution which is resorted to for a title, on their system, wants a title itself. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India III. ii. 67 The evidence to which the nature of the circumstances compelled the complainants..to resort. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. ix. 270 At length we resort to actual experiment. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 55 The Persian kings..resorted to mercenaries as their only salvation.
5. To repair, to make one's way, to come or go to a person.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 101 Of thi lyfe here in the last our..My sustrys and I shul to the resorte. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. i. 183 Thenne alle the knyghtes of the table round resorted vnto the kyng & made many Iustes & turnementes. 1530Palsgr. 688/2, I wyll resorte to hym to morowe for your cause. c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 39 He approched our bote in the night, which our Captaine would in noe wyse permitt, but willed that they shoulde resorte unto him the next daie. 1637Prynne Papers (Camden) 67 The persons and dispositions of those that resorted to the said Prynne and Burton in their way to their said imprisonment. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxviii. 137 What, to Catullus alone if a wayward fancy resort not? 1878Simpson Sch. Shaks. I. 54 On his arrival Stucley resorted to him to congratulate him.
b. To repair to one frequently or habitually.
1470–85Malory Arthur xviii. i. 725 Thenne..syr launcelot beganne to resorte vnto quene Gueneuer ageyne. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxli[i]. 7 Which thinge yf thou wilt graunte me, then shal the rightuous resorte vnto my company. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 110 No man hath accesse by day to her. Val. Why then I would resort to her by night. 1607Rowlands Diogines Lanth. (Hunt. Cl.) 25 Crowes will to carrion still, Like euer vnto like resort, The bad embrace the ill. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 48 To her that at the drinking bench challengeth loue, the Dutch resort.
†c. To consort or associate with others. Obs.—1
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. i. 114 b, They resorted with the elders and were no more subiect to goe vnto the warres.
6. To repair ordinarily or frequently to a place.
1432Rolls of Parlt. IV. 405/1 Certaines..charges to be..payed, unto the sustenyng of ye saide warkes, of every Shipp and Boote resortyng thider. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 295 At nyght before she wente to bedde, she faylled not to resorte vnto her chappell. 1563Child-Marriages (1896) 61 The banes were not askid in the church wherto he doth resort. 1611Bible Ps. lxxi. 3 Bee thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch lxix, Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching. 1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 210 Head-waiter of the chop-house here, To which I most resort.
b. With plural subject.
1479in Eng. Gilds (1870) 424 And that the Bakers lak no stuffe..at suche tymes as many straungers resortith to the towne. 1521State P., Carew MSS. (1867) I. 20 This is the very land of refuge that English pirates resort most unto. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. viii. 7 b, They haue two market dayes.., to the which resort an infinite number of people. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. v. (1614) 473 Emanuel Pinner at Cambaia obserued many to resort thither on pilgrimage. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. ii. 12 When Plato was in Egypt, the Iews resorted thither. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock iii. 9 Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. vi. 29 The churches could not contain those that resorted to them. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. iv. (1880) 59 The heads of the Reformed party..resorted to Paris in large numbers. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. 33 A cave in an island..whither Irish pilgrims still resort.
7. To proceed or go to (or towards) a place; to respond to a call or summons. † Also without const.
c1450Lovelich Grail lv. 46 Aleyn Remevede from that plas,..and his bretheren with hym gonnen Resort. 1496Naval Accts. Hen. VII (1896) 167 Proclamacion to cause the maryners that hade takyn wages to Resorte to the Ship. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxix. (Percy Soc.) 139 On a day, for hys owne dysporte, To the court of Rome he gan to resorte. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 677 After this battaile the Northren men resorted towarde Warwike. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. vii. 33 Noah..entered the Arke at Gods appointment, to which by Diuine instinct resorted both birds and beasts. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 81 The Sons of Light Hasted, resorting to the Summons high, And took thir Seats. 1703Pope Thebais 668 To Argos' realms the victor god resorts, And enters old Crotopus' humble courts. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 203 The number of females that, on this occasion, resort to his call, is uncertain. 1804Lauderdale Publ. Wealth (1819) 357 The advantages..are at once suggested, by resorting to the drawing-rooms..even of the British West India planter. a1859Olmsted Mech. Heavens xxii. (1860) 241 At the age of twenty-five years, he resorted to Italy, for the purpose of studying astronomy, where he resided a number of years.
†b. Of blood: To flow to some part. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. xii, The quicke bloode somwhat resorted unto his visage. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. viii. D viij b, The blood resorted to an hole, purple, and smoking new. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 273 The other Authors..say, that the madness of a Horse cometh..by some hot bloud resorting to the panicles of the brain.
†c. Of a stream, etc.: To flow to (another stream). Obs. (Common in Leland.)
1538Leland Itin. (1745) I. 99 Ther cam doun a Broke from West, resorting, as one said, to Wilebek streme.
†d. Const. with inf. Obs.
1460Pol., Rel., & L. Poems 194 In connaunt, wreche, þou art one-trewe, And Redy also to Resorte, To folowe vyces and sle vertu. c1471Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 279 O that nobill prynce and emperour flouere, To sitt at Londone resorte he than. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 296 The straungers of honeste, whiche of theyr curtesy resorteth for to vysyte the souerayne, must be consydered. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 54 Mo Bowres resorted to aide y⊇ others.
†e. Without const. To come. Obs. rare.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. iii. K k v b, For whan I shal resorte, be certaine and sure of it, mi iuste rewarde shal come with me. a1553Udall Royster D. ii. iii, When wil our new master come?.. I would it were to morow: for till he resorte Our mistresse being a Widow hath small comforte.
† f. To retire or withdraw into (a place). Obs.
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xvii. 13 But yf he resorte in to a cite, then shal all Israel cast roapes aboute the same cite. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 341 They resort every man with his family into his owne chamber.
8. To have repair, to stay, in a place.
1453Rolls of Parlt. V. 230/2 Repairyng or resortyng by the space of vi wokys withinne youre said Reaume. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §10 If it be very ranke grounde,.. where catel doth resort, plowe not that lande, tyll ye wyll sowe it. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 28 'Tis pitty that thou liu'st To walke where any honest men resort. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 85 His Nauy which sometimes resort in the Leuante. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 14, I..believe, that..these habitations belong to their captain, and that the company resort in caves up and down these rocks. 1773H. More Search aft. Happiness ii. 138 A court, Where pleasures, dress'd in every shape, resort.
†9. trans. To frequent, to haunt (a place). Obs.
1575Gamm. Gurton iii. iii. 76 Seeke him at Hob Fylchers shop, for, as charde it reported, There is the best ale in al the towne and now is most resorted. 1640Brome Sparagus Garden ii. ii, A pallace of pleasure, and daily resorted and filled with Lords and Knights, and their Ladies. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 35 Our Thames..is tainted with..the scarce numerable ships and other vessels that resort her port. |