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resume (iou)



resume verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French resumer or Latin resumere, formed as RE- + sumere take.]
I. verb trans.
Assume or put on again (something, esp. an emotion, faculty, or state) esp. after loss, relinquishment, or discard. LME.
E. Bowen The two..had resumed that air they wore on their wedding day. I. Murdoch They both..resumed their former postures.
b. Reoccupy (a place or seat). M17.
Dryden Reason resum'd her place, and passion fled. D. L. Sayers The jury returned;..the judge resumed his seat.
a. Begin again, recommence, (a practice or occupation) esp. after interruption; esp. go on again with, continue, (a discussion, statement, remark, etc.); (freq. with direct speech as obj.) go on to say. LME.
V. Woolf The grey nurse resumed her knitting. J. B. Morton Determined to resume his old life of careless gaiety. A. Carter 'As I was saying,' she resumed.
b. Reassemble or bring together again for the transaction of business. rare. L15.
Take back into one's own possession, reassume possession of, (something, esp. lands, rights, etc., previously given or granted to another). LME.
T. Sherlock Why should God resume this Authority out of the Hands of His Son? H. J. S. Maine In the case of..villeins the lord did not resume their land.
a. Repeat (a sentence or word). rare. LME.
G. Joye He resumeth the same sentence yet agen.
b. Recapitulate or summarize (facts etc.). L15.
E. Dowden A philosophy which should resume all his views.
a. Take back (a person) to or into a specified state or relation. arch. L15.
H. Vaughan Resume thy spirit from this world. Shelley If Heaven should resume thee.
b. Take or pick up (a thing) to use again; return to the use of. L16.
Spenser My former shield I may resume againe. C. V. Wedgwood He..resumed his cloak.
II. verb intrans.
Take a thing back into one's possession; reassume possession of something. Now rare. M16.
J. Wesley Love that lends our Joys, And Love resumes again.
Give a resume or summary. Long rare or obsolete. L18.
Recommence an interrupted practice or occupation; esp. go on again with or continue a discussion, statement, remark, etc.; go on to say something. E19.
W. Gerhardie Firing subsided and then resumed. Sunday Express The concert is ready to resume. S. Bedford Things resumed much as they had been.
resumable adjective M17.