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resume, v.|rɪˈz(j)uːm|
Also 7 Sc. resoom.
[ad. OF. resumer (F. résumer, It. re-, risumere, Sp., Pg. resumir), or L. resūmĕre, f. re- re- + sūmĕre to take.]
I. trans.
1. To assume, put on, or take to oneself anew (something previously lost, given up, or discarded):
a. courage, hope, or other feeling.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxiv, Grekes reioysynge And in all haste their hertes resumynge Began them selfe for to recomforte.
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 32 Come soule, resume the valour of thy birth. 1667Milton P.L. i. 278 If once they hear that voyce,..they will soon resume New courage and revive. 1671― P.R. ii. 58 Thus they out of their plaints new hope resume. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. ii. xix. §7 When the robbers perceived this unexpected retreat..they resumed their courage. 1765H. Walpole Otranto iv. (1798) 65 For mercy's sweetest self,..resume your soul, command your reason. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxiii, Who that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurota's banks, and call thee from the tomb? 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xiii. 180 Bell rapidly resumed her ordinary good spirits.
b. strength, power, influence, etc.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 59 And a litill, her myghtys that she hadde lost she resumyd, and forthermore, anoone aftir, ful helth optenyd.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxvii. §3 They which have once received this power may not think..to take it, reiect, and resume it as often as they themselues list. 1654tr. Martini's Conq. China 113 Only to amuse them with a Peace, whilst they could resume their strength and force. 1747Col. Rec. Pennsylv. V. 84 They resume the same Power with their President as if the Governor was here. 1771Junius Lett. xliv. (1788) 255 They have advised the King to resume a power of dispensing with the laws by royal proclamation. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest vii, Could I see your natural good sense resume its influence over passion. 1821Shelley Remembrance 10 The owlet night resumes her reign. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §6. 147 Theology in its scholastic form..resumed its supremacy in the schools. 1883Manch. Guard. 3 Nov. 7/6 Religious animosity..has resumed its hold on both sides.
c. some appearance, form, or condition.
1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 331 Ile resume the shape which thou dost thinke I haue cast off for euer. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 640 Having shifted ev'ry Form to scape, Convinc'd of Conquest, he resum'd his Shape. 1742Collins Ecl. i. 14 The radiant Morn resum'd her orient pride. 1781Cowper Conversat. 401 We come, As from a seven years transportation, home, And there resume an unembarrass'd brow. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, Mr. Pickwick's countenance resumed its customary benign expression. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xc, Could the dead, whose dying eyes Were closed with wail, resume their life.
d. To take again, re-occupy (a place or seat).
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. iv, A new-born Phœnix flies, and widow'd place resumes. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 456 He shall ascend,..Then enter into glory, and resume His Seat at Gods right hand. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. ii. 349 Reason resum'd her place, and passion fled. 1867Agassiz Journ. Brazil ii. (1871) 63, I resumed my seat, trying to look as if it were my habit to mount horses on the tops of high mountains and slide down to the bottom.
2. a. To take up or begin again, to recommence (some interrupted practice or occupation). † Also const. to.
c1440Alph. Tales 252 And þai tuke þaim to cowncell att þai wald resume hospitalite, & giff almos agayn as þai war wunte. 1624S. H. Preserv. Health 46 In the morning when you rise againe, resume to your selues your former dayes thoughts and cares. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 208 Nothing is easily resumed after a great discontinuance. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xlviii, My Muse! resume the task that yet doth thee abide. 1784Cowper Task vi. 535 With looks of some complacence he resum'd His road. 1820Irving Sketch Bk. I. 90 Rip now resumed his old walks and habits. 1853C. Brontë Villette x, I resumed some work I had dropped. 1883Manch. Guard. 17 Oct. 5/5 That Parliament should resume its labours upon the Criminal Code.
b. esp. To go on again with (a discourse, discussion, remark, etc.). Also with direct speech: to go on to say.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 70 Hauing made sufficient digression, let us resume the matter subject where we left. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §27 The Prince..prevailed..that the debate was again resumed upon the journey. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 5 Heer the Archangel paus'd,..Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. i. §3 Finding that nobody made answer, he resumed the thread of his discourse. 1765H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i. 16 Yes, I sent for you on a matter of great moment, resumed he. 1789J. Moore Zeluco I. xxii. 132 ‘Nay, my good friend,’ resumed the Physician, ‘it is a matter of indifference to me, what you do or do not believe.’ 1795Abridgm. Deb. Congress (1857) I. 525/1 The Senate resumed the consideration of the Treaty. 1845Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 26 As if merely resuming the broken thread of the previous day's argument. 1850F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xliii. 376 ‘I have fancied that illness was beginning to sour your temper,’ I replied. ‘Illness of mind, not body,’ he resumed. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 67 Ross had resumed his conversation with Kate. 1906Smart Set May 9/2 ‘I guess, friend,’ resumed the man with the pipe, ‘she's been standin' out here coolin' off for some time, ain't she?’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 620 Mind you, I'm not saying that it's all a pure invention, he resumed. 1976R. Hill Another Death in Venice i. iii. 63 ‘I'll say this, though,’ resumed Wilf, ‘I'm worried.’
c. To reassemble or bring together again for the transaction of business.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 42/1 If..it shall be thought..necessary and behovefull, to resume, assemble, and have apparaunce of this his seid Parlement. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. II. 49/2 The House being resumed, the report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
3. a. To take back to oneself (something previously given or granted).
1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 183/2 [To] take, resume, seise and reteine in your handes..all Honoures..the which ye hafe graunted. 1480Waterford Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. V. 314 Them that occupied the same befor they were resumed. 1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 18 It shall be laufull to our said soueraigne lord..to seise or resume any of the saide franchises. 1641Prynne Antipathie 18 The custody of Rochester Castle and other Forts, which the King for securing his State, had resumed into his owne hands. a1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. (1675) 246 They..will not murmur against Him, when He is pleased to resume any thing from them. 1713Swift Cadenus & Vanessa 260 Gods of whatsoe'er Degree Resume not, what themselves have giv'n. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. ii. 76 Why should God resume this Authority out of the Hands of His Son? 1821Scott Pirate Advt., Touching the hand of the corpse, she formally resumed the troth-plight which she had bestowed. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. i. 7 It is expressly stated that in the case of an association of villeins the lord did not resume their land.
†b. To abrogate, withdraw. Obs. rare—1.
1549Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 20 §3 The said Act..shall from henceforth be resumed, repealed, adnulled..and utterly made void for ever.
4. a. To take back (a person) to, or into some relation with, oneself.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxliii. 285 Seinge they myght not enduce the Kynge to noone conformytie or agrement, to resume his lawfull wyfe, and to refuse that other. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, We..Resume into the late state of our loue Worthy Cornelius Gallus. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint. ii. 138 Resume thy spirit from this world of thrall. 1821Shelley Hellas 102 If Heaven should resume thee, To Heaven shall her spirit ascend. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 287 She..holds her veil extended as if to resume her divine Child.
b. To take or pick up (a thing) again; to return to the use of.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 56 My former shield I may resume againe. 1716Pope Iliad v. 405 Then, mounting on his car, [he] resum'd the rein. 1822[Mary A. Kelty] Osmond I. 19 She continued, resuming the picture. 1873Black Pr. Thule viii, So he was content to resume his pipe and listen.
5. a. To repeat (a sentence or word). rare.
1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 37 He resumeth the same sentence yet agen the thirde tyme. 1592tr. Junius on Rev. xx. 6 A return unto the intended history by resuming the words which are in the end of the 4 verse. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 302 In many of these instances, the nominative must be repeated; and..in most of the others, it may be resumed with propriety and advantage.
b. To recapitulate or summarize (facts, etc.).
1676G. Towerson Decalogue 73 The unreasonableness whereof will appear, if we resume those things which we have said to the object of love. 1685Burnet tr. More's Utopia 21 The Counsellor had resolved to resume all that I had said. 1715Wodrow's Corr. (1843) II. 38 The sub-committee brought in their overtures as to Mr. Simson's affair. I cannot resume them. 1769Robertson Chas. V, x. III. 231 After resuming, at great length, all the facts and arguments upon which they founded their claim. 1869Pall Mall G. 6 Sept. 12 Concerning ‘Kathrina’, let us finally, and in brief, resume, that in its purport it is unsatisfactory and unconvincing. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 346 A philosophy which should resume all his views upon nature, man, and society.
II. absol.
6. To reassume possession.
1565in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 59 The Queen to have power to resume, paying to Humfrey and Shutz..such recompence as shall be adjudged by 6 Citizens. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. i. 15 That opportunity Which then they had to take from's, to resume We haue againe. 1738Wesley Hymns, ‘The Lord! how fearful is his Name!’ vi, 'Tis sov'reign Love that lends our Joys, And Love resumes again.
7. To give a résumé or summary.
1770Bp. Forbes Jrnl. (1886) 309 Preached from Acts 8. 14. &c., Mr. Allan Cameron resuming in Galic.
8. a. To begin to speak again; to continue one's discourse.
1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. 228 When he could again be heard.., he resumed, as follows. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, Mr. Weller smoked for some minutes in silence, and then resumed.
b. To recommence work or business.
1817Parl. Debates 1351 The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 625 The discussion was soon interrupted by the reappearance of Hampden with another message. The House resumed and was informed that [etc.]. 1903Daily Chron. 7 Oct. 6/3 The London County Council resumed after the holidays.
c. To continue; to begin again.
1815Zeluca II. 238 She picked..up [the letters], and resumed at the only words of her own she had seen. 1866Crump Banking ix. 200 If a bank of issue should discontinue issuing,..it should not be lawful to resume.
Hence reˈsumed ppl. a.; reˈsuming vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1470G. Ashby Active Policy 726 To be wele aduised in your grauntyng Any fee or office..That it securly stande withoute resumyng. 1672R. Montague in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 518 One quarter's allowance is stopped by the last resuming of the assignments. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 767 Then this resuming Cov'nant was declar'd When Kings were made, or is for ever bar'd. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg. II. 12/1 The major part of the present excess has arisen from the arrears of police taxes, and the rent of resumed Tannadaree lands. 1890Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. ii. ii. I. 270 The lessee was..given a preferential right of obtaining an annual occupation-license for the resumed area. |