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lively and beautiful yellow. N. lat. 52 1'. E. long. 

 232 20'. 



Restoration Ifland, a fmall ifland in the South Pacific 

 ocean, near the eait coaft of New Holland, difcovered by 

 captain Bligh in 1789. S. lat. 12 39'. 



Restoration Point, a cape on the weft coaft of Vafhon's 

 ifland. N. lat. 47" 30'. E. long. 237 46'. 



RESTORATIVE, in Medicine, fnch fubitances both 

 in the way of food, drink, and medicines, which are cal- 

 culated to reilore the vigour of the conilitution, after the 

 ceffation of acute difeafes, after violent haemorrhages, fa- 

 tigue, watching, or want of food. Thefe of courie com- 

 prehend the moft nutritious parts of animal fubftances, 

 jellies, broths, &c. ; and the vegetable ftarcb.es, arrow-root, 

 fago, 8cc. with milk, rice, and other light nburifliment. 

 The reftorativc medicines will be feledted from the bitter 

 and aromatic vegetables, and fome of the metallic ialts, 

 efpecially thofe of iron ; their principal ufe being to give 

 tone and vigour to the digeilive organs, and thus enable 

 them to extract and digeft the nutriment, which the food 

 affords. 



RESTOUN, in Geography, a town of Svria, anciently 

 called " Arethufa ;" 12 miles S.E. of Hamah. 



RESTOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia ; 72 

 miles W. of Lemberg. 



RESTRAINING Statute. See Remedial. 



Restraining Statute of Leafes. See Leases by Statute. 



RESTRAINT is when an action is hindered, or 

 flopped, contrary to volition, or the preference of the 

 mind. 



RESTRICTION, the ad of modifying, limiting, or 

 reftraining a thing to narrower bounds. 



General laws always bear fome reftndtion. In contracts 

 it is ufualto have reflridivc claufes, which bind the covenants 

 down to certain bounds. 



Restriction, Mental. See Reservation. 



Restriction, among Logicians, is underftood of the 

 limiting a term, fo as to make it fignify lefs than it ufually 

 does. 



In which fenfe the name philofopher is reftrained to Arif- 

 totle ; Great, to Alexander ; City, to Rome, &c. 



RESTRICTIVE Proposition. See Proposition. 



Restrictive Suture. See Suture. 



RESTRINGENT, in Medicine. See Astringent. 



RESTY. See Restive and Ride. 



RESULT, what is gathered from a conference, an in- 

 quiry, meditation, difcourfe, or the like ; or the conclufion 

 and effedt thereof. 



The ufual refult of difputes, Mr. Bayle obfervee, is, 

 that each perfon remains more attached to his own opinion. 



RESULTING Use, in Law. See Use. 



RESUMMONS, Resummonitio, a fecond fummons 

 or calling a man to anfwer an action, where the firlt fum- 

 mons is defeated, or fufpended, by an accident ; as the death 

 of a party, &c. 



RESUMPTION, Resumptio, in a law-fenfe, fignifies 

 the taking again into the king's hands fuch lands or tene- 

 ments as before, upon falfe fuggeftions, or other error, he 

 had delivered to the heir, or granted, by letters patent, to 

 any man. 



Resumption, in the Schools, a fummary repetition, or 

 running over, of an argument, or of the fubftance of it, in 

 order to refute it. 



Resumption is alfo ufed by Logicians for the reduction 

 of fome figurative or quaint propofkion, to a more intel- 

 ligible and fignificant one. 



RESUMPTIVE, in Pharmacy, an epithet given to a 



kind of unguent, ufed to recruit and reftore arid languishing 

 conftitutions, and to difpofe the dry bodies to receive nois- 

 rifhment. It is called in Latin unguenttim refumptivum. 



RESUPINATUM Folium, 111 Botany, a reverfed leaf, 

 has its proper under fide turned upperniofl, as in Phartis 

 latif alius, and Aljlroemeria pehgrina. See Leap. 



RESUPINATUS Flos, a reverfed flower, is fo cir- 

 curr.ltanced, that what, according to analogy, ought to be 

 its upper fide, is really the under. Of this Lavandula. 

 Lavender, is an example, the longer lip of its corolla being 

 uppermoit, while the other, with the (tamens ar.d ityle, 

 are downwards. 



RESURRECTION, Resukrectio, Refufcitaiion, the 

 act of returning to a new or fecond life, after having been 

 dead. 



The great argument for the truth of Chriftianity, and 

 that urged with the moft force and conviction for the fame, 

 is drawn from the refurredtion of our Saviour. The cir- 

 cumttances of it are iuch asalmoll admit of a demonltration ; 

 which has accordingly been attempted on the ftrict prin- 

 ciples of geometricians. See Ditton on the Refurredtion. 



The records of the fadt of our Lord's refurredtion art- 

 contained in the four gofpels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, 

 St. Luke, and St. John ; and thougli the accounts given 

 by thefe hiitorians have been charged with fome difcrc- 

 pancies and contradictions, the difficulties occafioned by 

 them admit of a iatisfadtory folution. Among thofe who 

 have made attempts for this purpofe, Mr. Gilbert Weft (ubi 

 infra) is entitled to our particular notice. With this view, 

 he Itates the feveral incidents of this wonderful event, ac- 

 cording to the order in which they feem to have arifen. He 

 premifes with obferving, that our Saviour Chrift was cru- 

 cified on a Friday (the preparation, or the day before the 

 Jewiih Sabbath) : gave up the ghoit about three o'clock in 

 the afternoon of the fame day ; and was buried that even- 

 ing, before the commencement of the Sabbath, which, 

 among the Jews, was always reckoned to begin from the 

 firft appearance of the ftars on Friday evening, af,d to end 

 at the appearance of them again on the day we call Satur- 

 day. He adds, that, fome time, and moft probably to- 

 wards the clofe of the Sabbath, after the religious duties of 

 the day had terminated, the chief prietfs obtained of Pilate, 

 the Roman governor, a guard to watch the fepulchre, till 

 the third day was pait ; pretending to apprehend that his 

 difciples might come by night, and ileal away the body, 

 and then give out that he was rifen, as he had predicted 

 while he was yet alive. Accordingly a guard was fet, the 

 fepulchre made fure, and, to prevent the foldiers themfelves 

 from conniving with the difciples, a leal was put upon the 

 ftone which clofed up the entrance of the fepulchre. 



Some have objected to the evangelical ltatement of the 

 time that elapfed between our Lord's death and refurrec- 

 tion ; and they fay, that the refurredtion happened a dav 

 fooner than the prediction imported. But in the " Trial of 

 the Witnefles," it is alleged, that the objection is founded 

 upon a miftakeof a mode of fpeakivg, common to the Jews 

 and other people ; who, when they name any number of 

 days and years, include the firft and the laft of the days or 

 years to make up the fum. Chrift, alluding to his own re- 

 furredtion, fays, " In three days I will raile it up." The 

 angels report his prediction thus : " The Son of man (hall 

 be crucified, and the third day rife again." Elfewhere it is 

 faid, " after three days ;" and again, that he was to be in 

 the bowels of the earth " three days and three nights." 

 Thefe expreffions are equivalent to each other ; for we al- 

 ways reckon the night into the day, when we reckon by fo 

 many days. If you agree to do a thing ten days hence, you 



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