Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled.
Dryden.
3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been
interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
Re*sum"mon (?), v. t. To summon again.
Re*sum"mons (?), n. A second summons.
Re*sump"tion (?), n. [cf. F. résumption, L. resumptio restoration,
recovery, fr. resumere. See Resume.] 1. The act of resuming; as, the
resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie
payments, etc.
2. (Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or
tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other
error.
Re*sump"tive (?), a. [cf. L. resumptivus restorative.] Taking back;
resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
Re*su"pi*nate (?), a. [L. resupinatus, p. p. of resupinare to bend
back. See Resupine.] Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down
or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some
plants.
Re*su"pi*na`ted (?), a. Resupinate.
Re*su`pi*na"tion (?), n. The state of luing on the back; the state of
being resupinate, or reversed.
Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of
the figure.
Sir H. Wotton.
Re`su*pine" (?), a. [L. resupinus; pref. re- re- + supinus bent
backward, supine.] Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K.
Digby.
He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck
aslant.
Cowper.
Re`sup*ply" (?), v. t. To supply again.
Re*sur"gence (?), n. The act of rising again; resurrection.
Re*sur"gent (?), a. [L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See
Resurrection.] Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
Re*sur"gent, n. One who rises again, as from the dead. [R.] Sydney
Smith.
Res`ur*rect" (?), v. t. [See Resurrection.] 1. To take from the grave;
to disinter. [Slang]
2. To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was
forgotten or lost). [Slang]
Res`ur*rec"tion (?), n. [F. résurrection, L. resurrectio, fr.
resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref. re- re- + surgere to rise.
See Source.] 1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life
by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general
resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on earth.
Milton.