resettlev.

Brit.

/ˌriːˈsɛtl/, U.S.

/riˈsɛd(ə)l/

Forms: see re- prefix and settle v.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, settle v.

Etymology: < re- prefix + settle v.

I. Senses relating to place or position.

a. transitive. To settle (a thing or person) again in a place; to replace, re-establish; to readjust the position of. Also with in(to). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in another place

resettle1545

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > fix or establish in position > again

resettle1545

replant1550

re-establish1666

1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. M.ii ^v So that the hande maye be resettelyd in his place.

1582 G. T. tr. R. Parsons Epist. Persecution Catholickes in Eng. 21 Our teares shalbe wyped awaye by our sauiour him selfe, all our molestations appeased,..all our racked members resetled, and we placed owt of all feare, sorow, & affliction.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 459/2 To resettle peace in Gods Church, which hee seemed onely to desire.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iii. 201 This upper Earth..was..not only the old one dissolv'd, and resetled in its ancient place again.

1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 110 Peace and Security thus resettled in Constantinople, the victorious Emperor sent word [etc.].

1806 M. Edgeworth Moral Tales (ed. 2) III. 199 She settled and resettled the flower; but suddenly she stopped,..plucked the full blown rose from her bosom, and threw it upon the ground with a theatrical look of horrour.

1878 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1911) II. 195 M. Grean was resettling some of his Greek (Tanagra) specimens.

1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness x. 188 Mr. Murbles blew his nose, and resettled his pince-nez.

1984 J. Frame Angel at my Table (1987) xviii. 131 I felt that there should have been some attempt by the hospital to help with resettling patients into their new lives.

2005 K. R. Wall Resurrection Road (2006) xxxiii. 301 Wyler stretched out his damaged leg and winced a little as he resettled it.

b. intransitive. To settle down again, esp. in the same place or on the same surface.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence > again

resettle1600

relocate1851

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established > again

resettle1600

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid > sink as solid matter in liquid > again

resettle1600

the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > be quiet or tranquil [verb (intransitive)] > become quiet or tranquil > settle down > again

resettle1835

1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles xx. 95 In triumph they may haue cause to hang vp in thy shop a mighty huge dumpling of the Lumbard-size, which may serue in stead of a signe, of these mens braines thus resetled [It. assestato], & by thy means reduced to their right vse & temper.

a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 365 That Mud..when it is re-settled at the bottom,..'tis not so much in quantity as it was before.

1711 Free-Thinkers 11 He a Free-thinker has been reckon'd, A Man of wond'rous Sense, and Mettal, Fit to unhinge, and then resettle.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. i. 180 They ever and anon lifted..their several goblets, and then..re-settled to their contemplations.

1913 Pop. Mech. Oct. 580/1 The machine..has the advantage of removing all the dirt without scattering it into the air to resettle upon the horse.

1934 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 56/3 Carefully pour off the top liquid,..add some fresh water, allow the precipitate to resettle, and again pour off the top liquid.

1997 E. Payne in M. River Allnighter 7 The creak of joists above and the window resettling in its groove.

2006 K. Richardson Greywalker xiii. 111 Sarah shuddered, then shook herself and resettled.

c. transitive (reflexive). To settle down again, esp. in one's seat or in a sitting position. Usually with preposition of position, as in or on.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit down [verb (reflexive)] > again

resettle1640

reseat1716

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xxxii. 135 He quickly resetled himselfe in his saddle, and began to charge the Gyant very fiercely.

1684 tr. J. Donneau de Visé Diary Siege of Luxembourg 39 The troops, which were in the bastion on the left, to resettle themselves there, were disquieted by the Granadoes.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xii. 295 Resettling himself in the saddle.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. ii. 205 The Bishop, resettling himself on his saddle, ambled solemnly on.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 190 They..heard the supper-party resettle themselves.

1874 ‘M. Harland’ in Godey's Lady's Bk. June 506/2 ‘I could ask no fairer destiny for my daughters than has been mine,’ murmured the mother, resettling herself in her luxurious chair before the sea-coal fire.

1980 M. Carin Five Hundred Keys iii. 38 He withdrew a tiny plastic bag, then resettled himself in the corner.

2000 B. Quirke Making Connections x. 227 They would resettle themselves at their desks, muttering about the excitability and typical lack of consideration of finance directors.

a. transitive. To settle (a person, a people, etc.) in another place of residence, or in a former place of residence again; to move to live in another area, often compulsorily; spec. to re-establish in a house or community after homelessness or eviction.

ΚΠ

1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. i. 46 [He] appointed Curio to resettle Nicomedes in Bithynia.

1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 118 They..gave out publickly that he was bringing over with him his half-brothers, in order to resettle them by force in England.

1824 J. Marshall Hist. Colonies planted by Eng. on Continent of N. Amer. ii. 46 Fortunately, they met Lord Delawar, who prevailed on them to return; and, on the 10th of June, resettled them at Jamestown.

1861 W. Muir Life Mahomet (new ed.) I. p. cxlii Cussai, a native of Coreishite lineage,..having reclaimed many branches of the Coreishite tribe from the nomad habits into which they had fallen, resettled them in their ancient township.

1891 Eng. Hist. Rev. 6 716 Catholic and Celtic Ireland, at this period, was..a conquered race, resettled on the lands of its fathers.

1919 Geogr. Jrnl. 54 329 Starvation, war, and the Turks have driven them out during the last few years to find refuge under our rule in Mesopotamia, and it is one of our difficult duties to resettle them.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iv. 142 In the olden days in Ireland a working team..was drawn from the community..to resettle an evicted family.

1965 Listener 30 Sept. 482/2 About 1,500 [old people]..require something between forty and fifty days to be resettled back in the community.

1978 A. Brink Rumours of Rain 105 ‘How many hundreds and thousands of “exceptions” do you think there are?’ he asked angrily. ‘Whole societies uprooted and resettled.’

1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) i. 23 Following the pacification, the Russian authorities resettled many mountaineers on the plains.

b. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To settle in a new place of residence, or back in a former place of residence.

ΚΠ

1710 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1709 99 It would be for the Advantage of the Trade of Great Britain, that the Inhabitants of the said Islands be enabled to resettle there.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lv. 210 Now, as it was impossible his cousin could recover, he would go abroad again, and resettle himself at Florence or Leghorn.

1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 262 We are going to town for three or four days, and shall then resettle here.

1815 H. Wheaton Digest of Law Maritime Captures & Prizes iv. 107 These claimants having, after their naturalization, returned to the country of their birth, and there resettled themselves, they became redintegrated British subjects.

1855 Theol. & Lit. Jrnl. Jan. 490 Gog, who is to invade the land of Israel, after the Israelites have returned and resettled there.

1892 Eng. Hist. Rev. 7 452 It represents the Conqueror as allowing free tenants who had not actually fought against him to resettle on their lord's estates.

1930 E. L. Hewett Anc. Life in Amer. Southwest iii. ii. 247 They remained away sixty-two years; two generations. In 1742 they were induced to return and resettle here.

1970 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 19 151 The most effective and productive villages were those where a whole village was allowed to move from a previous country and resettle as a group.

1994 P. Theroux Translating LA 11 The Massachusetts Miracle prevented me from resettling in the city of my birth, Boston.

2006 K. A. Trask Black Hawk (2007) vi. 133 Forsyth had been talking with the Sauk about the need for them to resettle themselves beyond the Mississippi.

3. transitive. To re-establish inhabitants or settlers in; to settle (a country, region, town, etc.) again.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)] > again

resettle1714

recolonizea1765

1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 241 This present Favour..will not contribute at all to the resettling the said Colony with Success,..unless the ancient Inhabitants will return.

1792 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (ed. 5) IV. 346 He collected the barbarians who had escaped out of the battle,..and obliged them to resettle the country they had relinquished, and to rebuild the cities they had burnt.

1805 A. Holmes Amer. Ann. II. 91 Worcester, in Massachusetts, which had been broken up by the Indian wars, became resettled.

1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. xxi. 565 The town was revived in 1680, and again in 1722, and resettled.

1886 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. & Monthly Rec. Geogr. 8 16 A vast fertile plain, which is now being resettled and brought under cultivation by both the Shans of Upper Burmah and Siam.

1936 J. N. L. Myers in R. G. Collingwood & J. N. L. Myers Rom. Brit. & Eng. Settlements v. xxii. 393 A district which had been repeatedly devastated and resettled in the seventh century.

1970 Phylon 31 376 New Mexico was deserted by the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt and not resettled until the successful campaign lead by Diego de Vargas in 1692 subdued the Indians of Northern New Mexico.

2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) xiii. 270 The Kurds also wanted their autonomous zone to include the historically Kurdish city of Kirkuk, which Saddam had resettled with thousands of Arabs.

II. Senses relating to state or condition.

a. transitive. To bring into order again; to restore to a settled state or condition. Also reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > put in order or set to rights > restore to order

resettle1611

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ricomporre, to recompose, or resettle.

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xix. 72 All things thus well resetled, Rozanel and Tristor prevailed..with Clarisel.

1687 London Gaz. No. 2301/2 His Majesties next concern and application, has been to re-settle those distracted Countries.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 233 Both within and without, the Man is distemper'd and disorder'd, and infinitely at a loss how to resettle himself in his former calm Condition.

1725 G. Smith Compl. Body Distilling 14 You will have no occasion to meddle with the same, lest they be disturbed and want to be resettled.

1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 62 I have the means in my power to resettle all our matters again.

1807 J. Gillies Hist. World II. xxvi. 599 Aquilius speedily reinstated the exiled kings; and resettled, for a time, the affairs of Cappadocia and Bithynia.

1857 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress (1864) 441 Things from time to time re-settle themselves in a way that best consists with national equilibrium.

1899 Daily News 13 July 6/3 The impulses which unsettle and resettle public opinion.

1912 L. Housman John of Jingalo xvii. 269 And so it was that only when things had begun to resettle themselves was any fresh reference made to the book's forthcoming publication.

1975 E. A. Alpers & C. Ehret in J. D. Fage & R. A. Oliver Cambr. Hist. Afr IV. vii. 475 Then, before Chwa had time to resettle the Bunyoro political situation, he himself became a war casualty.

2002 E. Nelson Compl. Idiot's Guide to Rom. Empire iii. xvii. 235 Galerius tried to resettle things in 308 by appointing a colleague, Licinius, as Augustus of the west, keeping Constantine and Daza as Caesars, sending Maximian back to pasture and outlawing his son Maxentius.

b. transitive. To settle again; to make fresh arrangements for; to make a new settlement of or in (something).

ΚΠ

1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 596. 913 General Monck had..received a call from God and man to march into England, for resetling the Parliament.

1690 C. Hedges Reasons for setling Admiralty-jurisdiction 13 This jurisdiction has been several times setled,..in the year 1632 after which it being interrupted, it was in the late times thought necessary to be resetled by Ordinances of Parliament.

1843 Westm. Rev. 39 222 Such facts should be fully investigated before our governors are allowed to turn everything upside down..and to unsettle and attempt to resettle everything.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 216 Why not make it expedient to do away with the perpetual settlement of Lord Cornwallis, and resettle the whole of Bengal?

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxx. 465 Similar suggestions..have been made for re-settling the relations of Ireland to Great Britain.

1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston iv. 439 The drawbacks of Napoleon's predilection for a general Congress to resettle everything.

1950 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 99 311 Still others gave the Court an opportunity..to review past decisions, re-evaluate the policies involved and resettle or unsettle important issues.

1986 L. C. Bollinger Tolerant Society ii. 65 The values and beliefs that together define the group or broader society exist in a state of flux, in which both belief and the willingness to act on them and in their defense must be settled and resettled again and again.

5. transitive. Law. To assign by a new settlement.

ΚΠ

1740 Select Cases Chancery 1724 to 1733 71 Trustee not to be compell'd to suffer a Recovery, unless it be on Marriage or to resettle the estate.

1796 J. B. Bird Assistant to Pract. Conveyancing 149 A marriage settlement, in which the father and his trustee and eldest daughter join with the younger daughter..to resettle their estate by moieties.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 121 Powers..to lease the estate..; to sell it, and buy another estate with the money, to be re-settled.

1903 Amer. Law Reg. 51 368 The procedure in question is ‘A judicial sale which is not an execution but an expedient to resettle estates in land’.

1960 J. S. Watson Reign of George III x. 248 In 1786 Pitt was obliged to resettle the civil list by appropriating money for particular sections of it.

1998 Mod. Law Rev. 61 178 It was to ensure that, if there was a son who survived to the age or twenty-one, he and his father..should be able to resettle the estate unconstrained by the need to account for a portion.

Derivatives

reˈsettled adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > established in residence > again

resettled1685

1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (Micah iv. 4) sig. Ggg/2 These Proverbial allusions do assure us, that they who are redeemed out of Babylon, and the servitude of sin, should enjoy their own with great safety and security, which literally was performed to the returned, resetled Captives.

1793 G. Butt Poems II. 43 Resettled Reason soon resum'd its reign.

1833 J. Marshall in Rep. Circuit Court U.S.: 4th Circuit (1837) II. 453 The resettled account..exhibited a balance against Robert B. Randolph, of $25,229.

1862 J. A. Clarke What Prophets Foretold 271/2 Other expositors..find the fulfilment in the building of the second temple and the resettled condition of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity.

1924 Geogr. Rev. 14 222 The cave dwelling, furthermore, tends to be most common in newly settled or resettled districts.

1937 Sun (Baltimore) 25 May 12/2 Nobody in Washington is able to indicate the means by which resettled farmers and sharecroppers can pay rent on these expensive houses.

1981 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 2 June 5/4 The synod..urged the Diocesan Council to create a committee to co-operate with other concerned groups, and resettled people themselves, in planning a strategy to cope with the problems brought about by forced removal.

1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) i. 13 The government..improvised a thin web of colonization, sending soldiers, clergy, officials and a few resettled peasants.

reˈsettling n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > re-establishment

resettling1626

resettlement1675

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > settling again

resettling1626

resettlement1675

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §417 Some time will be required after the Remove, for the Resetling, before it can draw the Juyce.

1661 J. Fell Life Thomas Fuller 35 Resistance would but defer the resetling of the King and Kingdome.

1724 C. Mather Mem. Life Increase Mather vi. 45 Mather did..endeavor the resettling of New-England on their Charter Foundation.

a1758 J. Edwards Hist. Redempt. (1782) iii. ii. 284 After the flood, what great things did God work relating to the resettling of the world.

1829 A. Abbot Hist. Andover 87 Oct. 16th was appointed and set apart for a day of fasting in order to the resettling of the gospel ministry.

1898 19th Cent. Apr. 521 The world just now is busy with a general resettling of its map.

1919 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 29 443 A Jewish Colonization Association devoting itself..to the resettling of Jews in Palestine.

1942 E. Russell Hist. Quakerism xxxvii. 522 In Poland the Quaker units helped..in the resettling of refugees on the land.

1986 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art. Crit. 44 401 To insist on the transcendental nature of art..would be to consolidate a resettling of values in Western culture which has been underway for centuries.

2008 Y. Tan Resettlem. Three Gorges Project i. 8 The social and economic transformations in China and the resettling of the rural people..are the main contexts to understanding the processes of the TGP resettlement.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	resettle
释义	resettlev. Brit. /ˌriːˈsɛtl/, U.S. /riˈsɛd(ə)l/ Forms: see re- prefix and settle v. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, settle v. Etymology: < re- prefix + settle v. I. Senses relating to place or position. 1. a. transitive. To settle (a thing or person) again in a place; to replace, re-establish; to readjust the position of. Also with in(to). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > in another place resettle1545 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > fix or establish in position > again resettle1545 replant1550 re-establish1666 1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. M.ii ^v So that the hande maye be resettelyd in his place. 1582 G. T. tr. R. Parsons Epist. Persecution Catholickes in Eng. 21 Our teares shalbe wyped awaye by our sauiour him selfe, all our molestations appeased,..all our racked members resetled, and we placed owt of all feare, sorow, & affliction. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vi. 459/2 To resettle peace in Gods Church, which hee seemed onely to desire. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iii. 201 This upper Earth..was..not only the old one dissolv'd, and resetled in its ancient place again. 1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 110 Peace and Security thus resettled in Constantinople, the victorious Emperor sent word [etc.]. 1806 M. Edgeworth Moral Tales (ed. 2) III. 199 She settled and resettled the flower; but suddenly she stopped,..plucked the full blown rose from her bosom, and threw it upon the ground with a theatrical look of horrour. 1878 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1911) II. 195 M. Grean was resettling some of his Greek (Tanagra) specimens. 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness x. 188 Mr. Murbles blew his nose, and resettled his pince-nez. 1984 J. Frame Angel at my Table (1987) xviii. 131 I felt that there should have been some attempt by the hospital to help with resettling patients into their new lives. 2005 K. R. Wall Resurrection Road (2006) xxxiii. 301 Wyler stretched out his damaged leg and winced a little as he resettled it. b. intransitive. To settle down again, esp. in the same place or on the same surface. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence > again resettle1600 relocate1851 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established > again resettle1600 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > in liquid > sink as solid matter in liquid > again resettle1600 the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > be quiet or tranquil [verb (intransitive)] > become quiet or tranquil > settle down > again resettle1835 1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles xx. 95 In triumph they may haue cause to hang vp in thy shop a mighty huge dumpling of the Lumbard-size, which may serue in stead of a signe, of these mens braines thus resetled [It. assestato], & by thy means reduced to their right vse & temper. a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 365 That Mud..when it is re-settled at the bottom,..'tis not so much in quantity as it was before. 1711 Free-Thinkers 11 He a Free-thinker has been reckon'd, A Man of wond'rous Sense, and Mettal, Fit to unhinge, and then resettle. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. i. 180 They ever and anon lifted..their several goblets, and then..re-settled to their contemplations. 1913 Pop. Mech. Oct. 580/1 The machine..has the advantage of removing all the dirt without scattering it into the air to resettle upon the horse. 1934 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 56/3 Carefully pour off the top liquid,..add some fresh water, allow the precipitate to resettle, and again pour off the top liquid. 1997 E. Payne in M. River Allnighter 7 The creak of joists above and the window resettling in its groove. 2006 K. Richardson Greywalker xiii. 111 Sarah shuddered, then shook herself and resettled. c. transitive (reflexive). To settle down again, esp. in one's seat or in a sitting position. Usually with preposition of position, as in or on. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of sitting > sit down [verb (reflexive)] > again resettle1640 reseat1716 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xxxii. 135 He quickly resetled himselfe in his saddle, and began to charge the Gyant very fiercely. 1684 tr. J. Donneau de Visé Diary Siege of Luxembourg 39 The troops, which were in the bastion on the left, to resettle themselves there, were disquieted by the Granadoes. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xii. 295 Resettling himself in the saddle. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. ii. ii. 205 The Bishop, resettling himself on his saddle, ambled solemnly on. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. viii. 190 They..heard the supper-party resettle themselves. 1874 ‘M. Harland’ in Godey's Lady's Bk. June 506/2 ‘I could ask no fairer destiny for my daughters than has been mine,’ murmured the mother, resettling herself in her luxurious chair before the sea-coal fire. 1980 M. Carin Five Hundred Keys iii. 38 He withdrew a tiny plastic bag, then resettled himself in the corner. 2000 B. Quirke Making Connections x. 227 They would resettle themselves at their desks, muttering about the excitability and typical lack of consideration of finance directors. 2. a. transitive. To settle (a person, a people, etc.) in another place of residence, or in a former place of residence again; to move to live in another area, often compulsorily; spec. to re-establish in a house or community after homelessness or eviction. ΚΠ 1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. i. 46 [He] appointed Curio to resettle Nicomedes in Bithynia. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 118 They..gave out publickly that he was bringing over with him his half-brothers, in order to resettle them by force in England. 1824 J. Marshall Hist. Colonies planted by Eng. on Continent of N. Amer. ii. 46 Fortunately, they met Lord Delawar, who prevailed on them to return; and, on the 10th of June, resettled them at Jamestown. 1861 W. Muir Life Mahomet (new ed.) I. p. cxlii Cussai, a native of Coreishite lineage,..having reclaimed many branches of the Coreishite tribe from the nomad habits into which they had fallen, resettled them in their ancient township. 1891 Eng. Hist. Rev. 6 716 Catholic and Celtic Ireland, at this period, was..a conquered race, resettled on the lands of its fathers. 1919 Geogr. Jrnl. 54 329 Starvation, war, and the Turks have driven them out during the last few years to find refuge under our rule in Mesopotamia, and it is one of our difficult duties to resettle them. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iv. 142 In the olden days in Ireland a working team..was drawn from the community..to resettle an evicted family. 1965 Listener 30 Sept. 482/2 About 1,500 [old people]..require something between forty and fifty days to be resettled back in the community. 1978 A. Brink Rumours of Rain 105 ‘How many hundreds and thousands of “exceptions” do you think there are?’ he asked angrily. ‘Whole societies uprooted and resettled.’ 1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) i. 23 Following the pacification, the Russian authorities resettled many mountaineers on the plains. b. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To settle in a new place of residence, or back in a former place of residence. ΚΠ 1710 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1709 99 It would be for the Advantage of the Trade of Great Britain, that the Inhabitants of the said Islands be enabled to resettle there. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lv. 210 Now, as it was impossible his cousin could recover, he would go abroad again, and resettle himself at Florence or Leghorn. 1794 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 262 We are going to town for three or four days, and shall then resettle here. 1815 H. Wheaton Digest of Law Maritime Captures & Prizes iv. 107 These claimants having, after their naturalization, returned to the country of their birth, and there resettled themselves, they became redintegrated British subjects. 1855 Theol. & Lit. Jrnl. Jan. 490 Gog, who is to invade the land of Israel, after the Israelites have returned and resettled there. 1892 Eng. Hist. Rev. 7 452 It represents the Conqueror as allowing free tenants who had not actually fought against him to resettle on their lord's estates. 1930 E. L. Hewett Anc. Life in Amer. Southwest iii. ii. 247 They remained away sixty-two years; two generations. In 1742 they were induced to return and resettle here. 1970 Econ. Devel. & Cultural Change 19 151 The most effective and productive villages were those where a whole village was allowed to move from a previous country and resettle as a group. 1994 P. Theroux Translating LA 11 The Massachusetts Miracle prevented me from resettling in the city of my birth, Boston. 2006 K. A. Trask Black Hawk (2007) vi. 133 Forsyth had been talking with the Sauk about the need for them to resettle themselves beyond the Mississippi. 3. transitive. To re-establish inhabitants or settlers in; to settle (a country, region, town, etc.) again. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)] > again resettle1714 recolonizea1765 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 241 This present Favour..will not contribute at all to the resettling the said Colony with Success,..unless the ancient Inhabitants will return. 1792 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (ed. 5) IV. 346 He collected the barbarians who had escaped out of the battle,..and obliged them to resettle the country they had relinquished, and to rebuild the cities they had burnt. 1805 A. Holmes Amer. Ann. II. 91 Worcester, in Massachusetts, which had been broken up by the Indian wars, became resettled. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. xxi. 565 The town was revived in 1680, and again in 1722, and resettled. 1886 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. & Monthly Rec. Geogr. 8 16 A vast fertile plain, which is now being resettled and brought under cultivation by both the Shans of Upper Burmah and Siam. 1936 J. N. L. Myers in R. G. Collingwood & J. N. L. Myers Rom. Brit. & Eng. Settlements v. xxii. 393 A district which had been repeatedly devastated and resettled in the seventh century. 1970 Phylon 31 376 New Mexico was deserted by the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt and not resettled until the successful campaign lead by Diego de Vargas in 1692 subdued the Indians of Northern New Mexico. 2006 R. Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in Emerald City (2007) xiii. 270 The Kurds also wanted their autonomous zone to include the historically Kurdish city of Kirkuk, which Saddam had resettled with thousands of Arabs. II. Senses relating to state or condition. 4. a. transitive. To bring into order again; to restore to a settled state or condition. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > put in order or set to rights > restore to order resettle1611 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ricomporre, to recompose, or resettle. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xix. 72 All things thus well resetled, Rozanel and Tristor prevailed..with Clarisel. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2301/2 His Majesties next concern and application, has been to re-settle those distracted Countries. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 233 Both within and without, the Man is distemper'd and disorder'd, and infinitely at a loss how to resettle himself in his former calm Condition. 1725 G. Smith Compl. Body Distilling 14 You will have no occasion to meddle with the same, lest they be disturbed and want to be resettled. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 62 I have the means in my power to resettle all our matters again. 1807 J. Gillies Hist. World II. xxvi. 599 Aquilius speedily reinstated the exiled kings; and resettled, for a time, the affairs of Cappadocia and Bithynia. 1857 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress (1864) 441 Things from time to time re-settle themselves in a way that best consists with national equilibrium. 1899 Daily News 13 July 6/3 The impulses which unsettle and resettle public opinion. 1912 L. Housman John of Jingalo xvii. 269 And so it was that only when things had begun to resettle themselves was any fresh reference made to the book's forthcoming publication. 1975 E. A. Alpers & C. Ehret in J. D. Fage & R. A. Oliver Cambr. Hist. Afr IV. vii. 475 Then, before Chwa had time to resettle the Bunyoro political situation, he himself became a war casualty. 2002 E. Nelson Compl. Idiot's Guide to Rom. Empire iii. xvii. 235 Galerius tried to resettle things in 308 by appointing a colleague, Licinius, as Augustus of the west, keeping Constantine and Daza as Caesars, sending Maximian back to pasture and outlawing his son Maxentius. b. transitive. To settle again; to make fresh arrangements for; to make a new settlement of or in (something). ΚΠ 1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 596. 913 General Monck had..received a call from God and man to march into England, for resetling the Parliament. 1690 C. Hedges Reasons for setling Admiralty-jurisdiction 13 This jurisdiction has been several times setled,..in the year 1632 after which it being interrupted, it was in the late times thought necessary to be resetled by Ordinances of Parliament. 1843 Westm. Rev. 39 222 Such facts should be fully investigated before our governors are allowed to turn everything upside down..and to unsettle and attempt to resettle everything. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 216 Why not make it expedient to do away with the perpetual settlement of Lord Cornwallis, and resettle the whole of Bengal? 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxx. 465 Similar suggestions..have been made for re-settling the relations of Ireland to Great Britain. 1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston iv. 439 The drawbacks of Napoleon's predilection for a general Congress to resettle everything. 1950 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 99 311 Still others gave the Court an opportunity..to review past decisions, re-evaluate the policies involved and resettle or unsettle important issues. 1986 L. C. Bollinger Tolerant Society ii. 65 The values and beliefs that together define the group or broader society exist in a state of flux, in which both belief and the willingness to act on them and in their defense must be settled and resettled again and again. 5. transitive. Law. To assign by a new settlement. ΚΠ 1740 Select Cases Chancery 1724 to 1733 71 Trustee not to be compell'd to suffer a Recovery, unless it be on Marriage or to resettle the estate. 1796 J. B. Bird Assistant to Pract. Conveyancing 149 A marriage settlement, in which the father and his trustee and eldest daughter join with the younger daughter..to resettle their estate by moieties. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 121 Powers..to lease the estate..; to sell it, and buy another estate with the money, to be re-settled. 1903 Amer. Law Reg. 51 368 The procedure in question is ‘A judicial sale which is not an execution but an expedient to resettle estates in land’. 1960 J. S. Watson Reign of George III x. 248 In 1786 Pitt was obliged to resettle the civil list by appropriating money for particular sections of it. 1998 Mod. Law Rev. 61 178 It was to ensure that, if there was a son who survived to the age or twenty-one, he and his father..should be able to resettle the estate unconstrained by the need to account for a portion. Derivatives reˈsettled adj. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > established in residence > again resettled1685 1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (Micah iv. 4) sig. Ggg/2 These Proverbial allusions do assure us, that they who are redeemed out of Babylon, and the servitude of sin, should enjoy their own with great safety and security, which literally was performed to the returned, resetled Captives. 1793 G. Butt Poems II. 43 Resettled Reason soon resum'd its reign. 1833 J. Marshall in Rep. Circuit Court U.S.: 4th Circuit (1837) II. 453 The resettled account..exhibited a balance against Robert B. Randolph, of $25,229. 1862 J. A. Clarke What Prophets Foretold 271/2 Other expositors..find the fulfilment in the building of the second temple and the resettled condition of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity. 1924 Geogr. Rev. 14 222 The cave dwelling, furthermore, tends to be most common in newly settled or resettled districts. 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 25 May 12/2 Nobody in Washington is able to indicate the means by which resettled farmers and sharecroppers can pay rent on these expensive houses. 1981 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 2 June 5/4 The synod..urged the Diocesan Council to create a committee to co-operate with other concerned groups, and resettled people themselves, in planning a strategy to cope with the problems brought about by forced removal. 1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) i. 13 The government..improvised a thin web of colonization, sending soldiers, clergy, officials and a few resettled peasants. reˈsettling n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > re-establishment resettling1626 resettlement1675 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun] > settling again resettling1626 resettlement1675 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §417 Some time will be required after the Remove, for the Resetling, before it can draw the Juyce. 1661 J. Fell Life Thomas Fuller 35 Resistance would but defer the resetling of the King and Kingdome. 1724 C. Mather Mem. Life Increase Mather vi. 45 Mather did..endeavor the resettling of New-England on their Charter Foundation. a1758 J. Edwards Hist. Redempt. (1782) iii. ii. 284 After the flood, what great things did God work relating to the resettling of the world. 1829 A. Abbot Hist. Andover 87 Oct. 16th was appointed and set apart for a day of fasting in order to the resettling of the gospel ministry. 1898 19th Cent. Apr. 521 The world just now is busy with a general resettling of its map. 1919 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 29 443 A Jewish Colonization Association devoting itself..to the resettling of Jews in Palestine. 1942 E. Russell Hist. Quakerism xxxvii. 522 In Poland the Quaker units helped..in the resettling of refugees on the land. 1986 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art. Crit. 44 401 To insist on the transcendental nature of art..would be to consolidate a resettling of values in Western culture which has been underway for centuries. 2008 Y. Tan Resettlem. Three Gorges Project i. 8 The social and economic transformations in China and the resettling of the rural people..are the main contexts to understanding the processes of the TGP resettlement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1545
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