Resumé
(||Re`su"mé") n. [F. See Resume.] A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or
brief recapitulation.
The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book.
C. Kingsley. Resume
(Re*sume") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resumed ;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] [L. resumere, resumptum; pref.
re- re- + sumere to take: cf. F. résumer. See Assume, Redeem.]
1. To take back.
The sun, like this, from which our sight we have,
Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave.
Denham.
Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood.
Sir W.
Scott. 2. To enter upon, or take up again.
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.
Resummon
(Re*sum"mon) v. t. To summon again.
Resummons
(Re*sum"mons) n. A second summons.
Resumption
(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.
Resumptive
(Re*sump"tive) a. [cf. L. resumptivus restorative.] Taking back; resuming, or tending
toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
Resupinate
(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.
Resupinated
(Re*su"pi*na`ted) a. Resupinate.
Resupination
(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. Resupine
(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. Resupply
(Re`sup*ply") v. t. To supply again.
Resurgence
(Re*sur"gence) n. The act of rising again; resurrection.
