Resisting medium, a substance which opposes the passage of a body through it. NWAD RESISTING.2
1. That cannot be effectually opposed or withstood; irresistible. NWAD RESISTLESS.2
Resistless in her love as in her hate. NWAD RESISTLESS.3
2. That cannot resist; helpless. NWAD RESISTLESS.4
That may be melted or dissolved; as bodies resoluble by fire. NWAD RESOLUBLE.2
Having a fixed purpose; determined; hence, bold; firm; steady; constant in pursuing a purpose. NWAD RESOLUTE.2
Edward is at hand, ready to fight; therefore be resolute. NWAD RESOLUTE.3
1. With fixed purpose; firmly; steadily; with steady perseverance. Persist resolutely in a course of virtue. NWAD RESOLUTELY.2
2. Boldly; firmly. NWAD RESOLUTELY.3
Some of these facts he examines, some be resolutely denies. NWAD RESOLUTELY.4
1. The act, operation or process of separating the parts which compose a complex idea or a mixed body; the act of reducing any compound or combination to its component parts; analysis; as the resolution of complex ideas; the resolution of any material substance by chimical operations. NWAD RESOLUTION.2
2. The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution of difficult questions in moral science. NWAD RESOLUTION.3
3. Dissolution; the natural process of separating the component parts of bodies. NWAD RESOLUTION.4
4. In music, the resolution of a dissonance, is the carrying of it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord. NWAD RESOLUTION.5
5. In medicine, the disappearing of any tumor without coming to suppuration; the dispersing of inflammation. NWAD RESOLUTION.6
6. Fixed purpose or determination of mind; as a resolution to reform our lives; a resolution to undertake an expedition. NWAD RESOLUTION.7
7. The effect of fixed purpose; firmness, steadiness or constancy in execution, implying courage. NWAD RESOLUTION.8
They who governed the parliament, had the resolution to act those monstrous things. NWAD RESOLUTION.9
8. Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution. NWAD RESOLUTION.10
[But this word is now seldom used to express the decision of a judicial tribunal. We use judgment, decision or decree.] NWAD RESOLUTION.11
9. The determination or decision of a legislative body, or a formal proposition offered for legislative determination. We call that a resolution, which is reduced to form and offered to a legislative house for consideration, and we call it a resolution when adopted. We say, a member moved certain resolutions; the house proceeded to consider the resolutions offered; they adopted or rejected the resolutions. NWAD RESOLUTION.12
10. The formal determination of any corporate body, or of any association of individuals; as the resolutions of a town or other meeting. NWAD RESOLUTION.13
11. In algebra, the resolution of an equation, is the same as reduction; the bringing of the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other, without destroying the equation, by which is found the value of the unknown quantity. NWAD RESOLUTION.14
12. Relaxation; a weakening. Obs. NWAD RESOLUTION.15
1. To separate the component parts of a compound substance; to reduce to first principles; as, to resolve a body into its component or constituent parts; to resolve a body into its elements. NWAD RESOLVE.2
2. To separate the parts of a complex idea; to reduce to simple parts; to analyze. NWAD RESOLVE.3
3. To separate the parts of a complicated question; to unravel; to disentangle of perplexities; to remove obscurity by analysis; to clear of difficulties; to explain; as, to resolve questions in moral science; to resolve doubts; to resolve a riddle. NWAD RESOLVE.4
4. To inform to free from doubt or perplexity; as, to resolve the conscience. NWAD RESOLVE.5
Resolve me, stranger, whence and what you are? NWAD RESOLVE.6
5. To settle in an opinion; to make certain. NWAD RESOLVE.7
Long since we were resolv’d of your truth, your faithful service and your toil in war. NWAD RESOLVE.8
6. To confirm; to fix in constancy. NWAD RESOLVE.9
Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you for more amazement. [Unusual.] NWAD RESOLVE.10
7. To melt; to dissolve. NWAD RESOLVE.11
8. To form or constitute by resolution, vote or determination; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole. NWAD RESOLVE.12
9. In music, to resolve a discord or dissonance, is to carry it, according to rule, into a consonance in the subsequent chord. NWAD RESOLVE.13
10. In medicine, to disperse or scatter; to discuss; as inflammation or a tumor. NWAD RESOLVE.14
11. To relax; to lay at ease. NWAD RESOLVE.15
12. In algebra, to resolve an equation, is to bring all the known quantities to one side of the equation, and the unknown quantity to the other. NWAD RESOLVE.16
1. To fix in opinion or purpose; to determine in mind. He resolved to abandon his vicious course of life. NWAD RESOLVE.18
2. To determine by vote. The legislature resolved to receive no petitions after a certain day. NWAD RESOLVE.19
3. To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid. NWAD RESOLVE.20
When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves and turns alkaline. NWAD RESOLVE.21
4. To separate into its component parts, or into distinct principles; as, water resolves into vapor; a substance resolves into gas. NWAD RESOLVE.22
5. To be settled in opinion. NWAD RESOLVE.23
Let men resolve of that as they please. [Unusual.] NWAD RESOLVE.24
1. Fixed purpose of mind; settled determination; resolution. NWAD RESOLVE.26
He strait revokes his bold resolve. NWAD RESOLVE.27
2. Legal or official determination; legislative act concerning a private person or corporation, or concerning some private business. Public acts of a legislature respect the state, and to give them validity, the bills for such acts must pass through all the legislative forms. Resolves are usually private acts, and are often passed with less formality. Resolves may also be the acts of a single branch of the legislature; whereas public acts must be passed by a majority of both branches. NWAD RESOLVE.28
3. The determination of any corporation or association; resolution. NWAD RESOLVE.29
1. Separated into its component parts; analyzed. NWAD RESOLVED.2
2. Determined in purpose; as, I am resolved not to keep company with gamesters. This phrase is properly, “I have resolved;” as we say, a person is deceased, or has deceased; he is retired, or has retired. In these phrases, the participle is rather an adjective. NWAD RESOLVED.3
3. Determined officially or by vote. NWAD RESOLVED.4
1. A resounding; a sound returned from the sides of a hollow instrument of music; reverberated sound or sounds. NWAD RESONANCE.2
2. A sound returned. NWAD RESONANCE.3
1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake. NWAD RESORT.2
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. NWAD RESORT.3
2. To go; to repair. NWAD RESORT.4
The people resort to him again. Mark 10:1; John 18:20. NWAD RESORT.5
3. To fall back. NWAD RESORT.6
The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. Obs. NWAD RESORT.7
1. The act of going to or making application; a betaking one’s self; as a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion. NWAD RESORT.9
2. Act of visiting. NWAD RESORT.10
Join with me to forbid him her resort. NWAD RESORT.11
3. Assembly; meeting. NWAD RESORT.12
4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as a place of resort. NWAD RESORT.13
5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute. NWAD RESORT.14
6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. [Not in use.] NWAD RESORT.15
Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal. NWAD RESORT.16
1. To send back sound; to echo. NWAD RESOUND.2
And Albion’s cliffs resound the rural lay. NWAD RESOUND.3
2. To sound; to praise or celebrate with the voice or the sound of instruments. NWAD RESOUND.4
3. To praise; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of. NWAD RESOUND.5
The man for wisdom’s various arts renown’d, long exercis’d in woes, O muse, resound. NWAD RESOUND.6
1. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound; as, common fame resounds back to them. NWAD RESOUND.8
2. To be much and loudly mentioned. NWAD RESOUND.9
1. Any source of aid or support; an expedient to which a person may resort for assistance, safety or supply; means yet untried; resort. An enterprising man finds resources in his own mind. NWAD RESOURCE.2
Pallas view’d his foes pursuing and his friends pursu’d, used threat’nings mix’d with prayers, his last resource. NWAD RESOURCE.3
2. Resources, in the plural, pecuniary means; funds; money or any property that can be converted into supplies; means of raising money or supplies. Our national resources for carrying on war are abundant. Commerce and manufactures furnish ample resources. NWAD RESOURCE.4
1. To answer; to speak in return; to reply. [Little used.] NWAD RESPEAK.2
2. To speak again; to repeat. NWAD RESPEAK.3
1. To regard; to have regard to in design or purpose. NWAD RESPECT.2
In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty, as variety of ground for fruits, trees and herbs. NWAD RESPECT.3
2. To have regard to, in relation or connection; to relate to. The treaty particularly respects our commerce. NWAD RESPECT.4
3. To view or consider with some degree of reverence; to esteem as possessed of real worth. NWAD RESPECT.5
I always loved and respected Sir William. NWAD RESPECT.6
4. To look towards. NWAD RESPECT.7
Palladius adviseth the front of his house should so respect the south. [Not in use.] NWAD RESPECT.8
To respect the person, to suffer the opinion or judgment to be influenced or biased by a regard to the outward circumstances of a person, to the prejudice of right and equity. NWAD RESPECT.9
Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor. Leviticus 19:15. NWAD RESPECT.10
Neither doth God respect any person. 2 Samuel 14:14. NWAD RESPECT.11
1. Regard; attention. NWAD RESPECT.13
2. That estimation or honor in which men hold the distinguished worth or substantial good qualities of others. It expresses less than reverence and veneration, which regard elders and superiors; whereas respect may regard juniors and inferiors. NWAD RESPECT.14
Respect regards the qualities of the mind, or the actions which characterize those qualities. NWAD RESPECT.15
Seen without awe, and serv’d without respect. NWAD RESPECT.16
3. That deportment or course of action which proceeds from esteem; regard; due attention; as, to treat a person with respect. NWAD RESPECT.17
These same men treat the sabbath with little respect. NWAD RESPECT.18
4. Good will; favor. NWAD RESPECT.19
The Lord had respect to Abel and his offering. Genesis 4:4. NWAD RESPECT.20
5. Partial regard; undue bias to the prejudice of justice; as the phrase, respect of persons. 1 Peter 1:17; James 2:1; Proverbs 24:23. NWAD RESPECT.21
6. Respected character; as persons of the best respect in Rome. NWAD RESPECT.22
7. Consideration; motive in reference to something. NWAD RESPECT.23
Whatever secret respects were likely to move them - NWAD RESPECT.24
8. Relation; regard; reference; followed by of, but more properly by to. NWAD RESPECT.25
They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the benefits men received from him, had several titles. NWAD RESPECT.26
1. Possessing the worth or qualities which deserve or command respect; worth of esteem and honor; as a respectable citizen; respectable company. NWAD RESPECTABLE.2
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable. NWAD RESPECTABLE.3
2. In popular language, this word is much used to express what is moderate in degree of excellence on in number, but not despicable. We say, a respectable discourse or performance, a respectable audience, a respectable number of citizens convened. NWAD RESPECTABLE.4
1. With respect; more generally, in a manner to merit respect. NWAD RESPECTABLY.2
2. Moderately, but in a manner not to be despised. NWAD RESPECTABLY.3
I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34. NWAD RESPECTER.2
With humble joy and with respectful fear. NWAD RESPECTFUL.2
1. Relative; having relation to something else; not absolute; as the respective connections of society. NWAD RESPECTIVE.2
2. Particular; relating to a particular person or thing. Let each man retire to his respective place of abode. The officers were found in their respective quarters; they appeared at the head of their respective regiments. Let each give according to his respective proportion. NWAD RESPECTIVE.3
3. Worthy of respect. [Not in use.] NWAD RESPECTIVE.4
4. Careful; circumspect; cautious; attentive to consequences; as respective and wary men. [Not in use.] NWAD RESPECTIVE.5
1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each. Let each man respectively perform his duty. NWAD RESPECTIVELY.2
The impressions from the objects of the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. NWAD RESPECTIVELY.3
2. Relatively; not absolutely. NWAD RESPECTIVELY.4
3. Partially; with respect to private views. Obs. NWAD RESPECTIVELY.5
4. With respect. Obs. NWAD RESPECTIVELY.6
1. The act of breathing; the act of inhaling air into the lungs and again exhaling or expelling it, by which animal life is supported. The respiration of fishes, [for these cannot live long without air,] appears to be performed by the air contained in the water acting on the gills. NWAD RESPIRATION.2
2. Relief from toil. NWAD RESPIRATION.3
1. To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs and exhale it, for the purpose of maintaining animal life. NWAD RESPIRE.2
2. To catch breath. NWAD RESPIRE.3
3. To rest; to take rest from toil. NWAD RESPIRE.4
1. Pause; temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest. NWAD RESPIT.2
Some pause and respit only I require. NWAD RESPIT.3
2. In law, reprieve; temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender. NWAD RESPIT.4
3. Delay; forbearance; prolongation of time for the payment of a debt beyond the legal time. NWAD RESPIT.5
4. The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury, beyond the proper term. NWAD RESPIT.6
1. To relieve by a pause or interval of rest. NWAD RESPIT.8
To respit his day-labor with repast. NWAD RESPIT.9
2. To suspend the execution of a criminal beyond the time limited by the sentence; to delay for a time. NWAD RESPIT.10
3. To give delay of appearance at court; as, to respit a jury. NWAD RESPIT.11
Brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor. NWAD RESPLENDENCE.2
Son! thou in whom my glory I behold in full resplendence, heir of all my might. NWAD RESPLENDENCE.3
With royal arras and resplendent gold. NWAD RESPLENDENT.2
1. To answer; to reply. NWAD RESPOND.2
A new affliction strings a new chord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. NWAD RESPOND.3
2. To correspond; to suit. NWAD RESPOND.4
To every theme responds thy various lay. NWAD RESPOND.5
3. To be answerable; to be liable to make payment; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. NWAD RESPOND.6
1. A short anthem interrupting the middle of a chapter, which is not to proceed till the anthem is ended. NWAD RESPOND.9
2. An answer. [Not in use.] NWAD RESPOND.10
- Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. NWAD RESPONDENT.2
1. One that answers in a suit, particularly a chancery suit. NWAD RESPONDENT.4
2. In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections or overthrow arguments. NWAD RESPONDENT.5
1. Response; answer. NWAD RESPONSAL.3
2. One who is responsible. [Not in use.] NWAD RESPONSAL.4
1. An answer or reply; particularly, an oracular answer. NWAD RESPONSE.2
2. The answer of the people or congregation to the priest, in the litany and other parts of divine service. NWAD RESPONSE.3
3. Reply to an objection in a formal disputation. NWAD RESPONSE.4
4. In the Romish church, a kind of anthem sung after the morning lesson. NWAD RESPONSE.5
5. In a fugue, a repetition of the given subject by another part. NWAD RESPONSE.6
1. The state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt. NWAD RESPONSIBILITY.2
It is used in the plural; as heavy responsibilities. NWAD RESPONSIBILITY.3
2. Ability to answer in payment; means of paying contracts. NWAD RESPONSIBILITY.4
1. Liable to account; accountable; answerable; as for a trust reposed, or for a debt. We are all responsible for the talents entrusted to us by our Creator. A guardian is responsible for the faithful discharge of his duty to his ward. The surety is responsible for the debt of his principal. NWAD RESPONSIBLE.2
2. Able to discharge an obligation; or having estate adequate to the payment of a debt. In taking bail, the officer will ascertain whether the proposed surety is a responsible man. NWAD RESPONSIBLE.3
1. State of being liable to answer, repay or account; responsibility. NWAD RESPONSIBLENESS.2
2. Ability to make payment of an obligation or demand. NWAD RESPONSIBLENESS.3
1. Answering; making reply. NWAD RESPONSIVE.2
2. Correspondent; suited to something else. NWAD RESPONSIVE.3
The vocal lay responsive to the strings. NWAD RESPONSIVE.4
1. Cessation of motion or action of any kind, and applicable to any body or being; as rest from labor; rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. A body is at rest, when it ceases to move; the mind is at rest, when it ceases to be disturbed or agitated; the sea is never at rest. Hence, NWAD REST.2
2. Quiet; repose; a state free from motion or disturbance; a state of reconciliation to God. NWAD REST.3
Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. Matthew 11:29. NWAD REST.4
3. Sleep; as, retire to rest. NWAD REST.5
4. Peace; national quiet. NWAD REST.6
The land had rest eighty years. Judges 3:30; Deuteronomy 12:10. NWAD REST.7
5. The final sleep, death. NWAD REST.8
6. A place of quiet; permanent habitation. NWAD REST.9
Ye are not as yet come to the rest, and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. Deuteronomy 12:9. NWAD REST.10
7. Any place of repose. NWAD REST.11
In dust, our final rest, and native home. NWAD REST.12
8. That on which any thing leans or lies for support. 1 Kings 6:6. NWAD REST.13
Their vizors clos’d, their lances in the rest. NWAD REST.14
9. In poetry, a short pause of the voice in reading; a cesura. NWAD REST.15
10. In philosophy, the continuance of a body in the same place. NWAD REST.16
11. Final hope. NWAD REST.17
Sea fights have been final to the war; but this is, when princes set up their rest upon the battle. Obs. NWAD REST.18
12. Cessation from tillage. Leviticus 25:4. NWAD REST.19
13. The gospel church or new covenant state in which the people of God enjoy repose, and Christ shall be glorified. Isaiah 11:10. NWAD REST.20
14. In music, a pause; an interval during which the voice is intermitted; also, the mark of such intermission. NWAD REST.21
1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder. NWAD REST.23
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give. NWAD REST.24
2. Others; those not included in a proposition or description. [In this sense, rest is a noun, but with a singular termination expressing plurality.] NWAD REST.25
Plato and the rest of the philosophers - NWAD REST.26
Arm’d like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. NWAD REST.27
The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded. Romans 11:7. NWAD REST.28
1. To cease from action or motion of any kind; to stop; a word applicable to any body or being, and to any kind of motion. NWAD REST.30
2. To cease from labor, work or performance. NWAD REST.31
God rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:2. NWAD REST.32
So the people rested on the seventh day. Exodus 16:30. NWAD REST.33
3. To be quiet or still; to be undisturbed. NWAD REST.34
There rest, if any rest can harbor there. NWAD REST.35
4. To cease from war; to be at peace. NWAD REST.36
And the land rested from war. Joshua 11:23. NWAD REST.37
5. To be quiet or tranquil, as the mind; not to be agitated by fear, anxiety or other passion. NWAD REST.38
6. To lie; to repose; as, to rest on a bed. NWAD REST.39
7. To sleep; to slumber. NWAD REST.40
Fancy then retires into her private cell, when nature rests. NWAD REST.41
8. to sleep the final sleep; to die or be dead. NWAD REST.42
Glad I’d lay me down, as in my mother’s lap; ther I should rest, and sleep secure. NWAD REST.43
9. To lean; to recline for support; as, to rest the arm on a table. The truth of religion rests on divine testimony. NWAD REST.44
10. to stand on; to be supported by; as, a column rests on its pedestal. NWAD REST.45
11. To be satisfied; to acquiesce; as, to rest on heaven’s determination. NWAD REST.46
12. To lean; to trust; to rely; as, to rest on a man’s promise. NWAD REST.47
13. To continue fixed. Isaiah 51:4. NWAD REST.48
14. To terminate; to come to an end. Ezekiel 16:42. NWAD REST.49
15. To hang, lie or be fixed. NWAD REST.50
Over a tent a cloud shall rest by day. NWAD REST.51
16. To abide; to remain with. NWAD REST.52
They said, the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. 2 Kings 2:15; Ecclesiastes 7:9. NWAD REST.53
17. To be calm or composed in mind; to enjoy peace of conscience. NWAD REST.54
1. To lay at rest; to quiet. NWAD REST.57
Your piety has paid all needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. NWAD REST.58
2. To place, as on a support. We rest our cause on the truth of the Scripture. NWAD REST.59
Her weary head upon your bosom rest. NWAD REST.60
To stand or remain without flowing. NWAD RESTAGNATE.2
[This word is superseded by stagnate.] NWAD RESTAGNATE.3
[The present orthography is restoration, which see.] NWAD RESTAURATION.2
1. Unwilling to go, or only running back; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; as a restif steed. It seems originally to have been used of horses that would not be driven forward. It is sometimes written restive. NWAD RESTIF.2
All who before him did ascend the throne, labor’d to draw three restive nations on. NWAD RESTIF.3
2. Unyielding; as restif stubbornness. NWAD RESTIF.4
3. Being at rest, or less in action. [Not in use.] NWAD RESTIF.5
1. Obstinate reluctance or indisposition to move. NWAD RESTIFNESS.2
2. Obstinate unwillingness. NWAD RESTIFNESS.3
To restore to a former state. [Not used.] NWAD RESTITUTE.2
1. The act of returning or restoring to a person some thing or right of which he has been unjustly deprived; as the restitution of ancient rights to the crown. NWAD RESTITUTION.2
Restitution is made by restoring a specific thing taken away or lost. NWAD RESTITUTION.3
2. The act of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage or injury; indemnification. NWAD RESTITUTION.4
He restitution to the value makes. NWAD RESTITUTION.5
3. The act of recovering a former state or posture. [Unusual.] NWAD RESTITUTION.6
Restitution of all things, the putting the world in a holy and happy state. Acts 3:21. NWAD RESTITUTION.7
1. Unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as a restless child. NWAD RESTLESS.2
2. Being without sleep; uneasy. NWAD RESTLESS.3
Restless he pass’d the remnant of the night. NWAD RESTLESS.4
3. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night. NWAD RESTLESS.5
4. Uneasy; unquiet; not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; as a restless prince; restless ambition; restless passions. NWAD RESTLESS.6
5. Uneasy; turbulent; as restless subjects. NWAD RESTLESS.7
6. Unsettled; disposed to wander or to change place or condition. NWAD RESTLESS.8
- Restless at home, and ever prone to range. NWAD RESTLESS.9
When the mind casts and turns itself restlessly from one thing to another. NWAD RESTLESSLY.2