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1884 D. Graham Pract. Treat. Massage iii. 56 Flexion and extension of the leg at the knee, either passively or resistively, are seldom necessary.

1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 764/1 Individuals..becoming taciturn, unsociable, morose, or even resistively perverse.

1914 U.S. Patent 1,119,976 2/1 The valves would be so far receded as to not act resistively upon the liquid.

1979 Family Coordinator 28 249 The absentee father himself is very difficult to reach by the therapist,..he is usually resistively aloof.

2004 M. Neenan & W. Dryden Cognitive Therapy xcv. 231 Some therapists may be reluctant to admit that they engage in counterproductive behaviour.., but we would suggest that such therapists accept both themselves and their clients for acting resistively.

1929 Brit. Patent 299,856 1/2 This is effected by coupling the line to the transmitter control means resistively, as well as reactively.

1951 Sci. News Let. 15 Dec. 376/3 He calls it a ‘resistively terminated probe microphone’.

1963 Adv. in Catalysis 14 302 (caption) Variation of temperature over resistively heated filament.

1979 Geogr. Jrnl. 145 49 A resistively loaded dipole.

1994 Sci. & Public Affairs Spring 24/3 The current circulating in the tokamak heats the plasma resistively.

2007 M. P. Weides Josephson Tunnel Junctions App. A. 115 (caption) Resistively biased tunnel junctions.