resemble 
II. t in >>'n us. To be like ; have a resemblance ; 
appear. 
And Merlyn, that wel resembled to Bretel, cleped the 
porter, . . . and the! dought it was Bretel and lunian. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 76. 
An huge tablet this fair lady bar 
In hir handes twain all this to declare, 
JlesembKny to be fonrged all of-new. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4521. 
resembler (re-zem'bler), . One who or that 
which resembles. 
Tartar is a body by itself that has few resemblerg in the 
world. Boyle, Works, I. 616. 
resembling (re-zem'bling), u. Like; similar; 
homogeneous ; congruous. 
They came to the side of the wood where the hounds 
were. . . . many of them in colour and marks so resem- 
bling that it showed they were of one kind. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. 
Good actions still must be maintained with good, 
As bodies nourished with resembling food. 
Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, 1. 78. 
resemblingly (re-zem'bling-li), adv. Sp as to 
resemble ; with resemblance or verisimilitude. 
The angel that holds the book, in the Revelations, de- 
scribes him resemblingly. Boyle, Works, II. 402. 
reseminate (re-sem'i-nat), v. t. [< L. resemina- 
tus, pp. of rescnnnarc (> It. riseminarc = Sp. re- 
sembrar = Pg. resemear = OF. resemer, F. res- 
semer), sow again, beget again, < re-, again, + 
seminare, sow: see sc urinate. Cf. disseminate.'] 
To propagate again ; beget or produce again by 
seed. 
Concerning its generation, that without all conjunction 
it [the phoenix] begets and reseminates itself, hereby we 
introduce a vegetable production in animals, and unto 
sensible natures transfer the propriety of plants. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., Hi. 12. 
resend (re-send'), v.t. [<re- + send.] To send 
again ; send back ; return. 
My book of "The hurt of hearing," &c., I did give unto 
you ; howbeit, if you be weary of it, you may re-send it 
again. J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 116. 
I sent to her . . . 
Tokens and letters which she did resend. 
Shak., All's Well, iii. 0. 123. 
resent (re-zenf), v. [< OF. rexentir, ressentir, 
F. ressentir = Pr. resentir = Cat. ressentir = Sp. 
Pg. resentir = It. rtxentire, < ML. "resentire, feel 
in return, resent, < L. re-, again, + sentire, feel : 
see scent, sense. Cf. assent, consent, dissent.] I. 
trans. If. To perceive by the senses ; have a 
keen or strong sense, perception, or feeling of; 
be affected by. 
'Tis by my touch alone that you resent 
What objects yield delight, what discontent. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iv. 156. 
Our King Henry the Seventh quickly rpnentedhis drift. 
Fuller. (Webster.) 
Hence, specifically 2f. To scent; perceive 
by the sense of smell. 
Perchance, as vultures are said to smell the earthliness 
of a dying corpse ; so this bird of prey [the evil spirit whom 
the writer supposes to have personated Samuel (1 Sam. 
xxviii. 14)] resented a worse than earthly savour in the soul 
of Saul, as evidence of his death at hand. 
Fuller, Profane State, v. 4. 
3f. To give the odor of ; present to the sense of 
smell. 
Where does the pleasant air resent a sweeter breath? 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xxv. 221. 
4f. To have a certain sense or feeling at some- 
thing; take well or ill; have satisfaction from 
or regret for. 
He ... began, though over-late, to resent the Injury he 
had done her. B. Jonson, New Inn, Arg. 
Many here shrink in their Shoulders, and are very sen- 
sible of his Departure, and the Lady Infanta resents it 
more than any. llowell, Letters, I. iii. 25. 
5. To take ill; consider as an injury or affront; 
be in some degree angry or provoked at ; hence, 
also, to show anger by words or acts. 
Thou thyself with scorn 
And anger wouldst resent the offer'd wrong. 
Milton, P. L., ix. 300. 
An injurious or slighting word is thrown out, which we 
think ourselves obliged to resent. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, L x. 
Mankind resent nothing so much as the intrusion upon 
them of a new and disturbing truth. 
Leslie Stephen, Bog. Thought, i. 17. 
6f. To bear; endure. 
Very hot soultry hot, upon my honour phoo, my lady 
Whimsey how does your ladiship resent it? I shall be 
most horribly tann'd. 
D'Urfey, A Virtuous Wife (1680). (Wright.) 
=Syn. 6. See angerl. 
ll.t intrans. 1. To have a certain flavor; 
savor. 
Vessels full of traditionary pottage, resenting of the wild 
gourd of human invention. Fuller, Pisgah Sight, iii. 3. 
5100 
2. To feel resentment : be indignant. 
When he [Pompey] had carried the consulship for a 
friend of his, against the pursuit of Sylla, . . . Sylla did 
a little resent thereat. Baton, Friendship (ed. 1887). 
The town highly resented to see a person of Sir William 
Temple's character and merits roughly used. 
.tii'.it. Battle of the Books, Bookseller to the Reader. 
resenter (re-zen'ter), . One who resents, in 
any sense of that word, 
resentful (re-zent'ful), a. [< resent + -ful.] 
Inclined or apt to resent ; full of resentment. 
To soften the obdurate, to convince the mistaken, to 
mollify the resentful, are worthy of a statesman. 
Johnson, Works, II. 647. 
Not for prud'ry's sake, 
But dignity's, resentful of the wrong. 
Camper, Task, iii. 79. 
= Syn. Irascible, choleric, vindictive, ill-tempered. See 
anger'i. 
resentfully (re-zent'ful-i), adr. In a resentful 
manner; with' resentment. 
resentimentt (re-zen'ti-ment), n. [< ML. "re- 
aentimeiitum ; (.resentment.] 1. Feeling or sense 
of anything ; the state of being deeply affected 
by anything. 
I ... choose rather, being absent, to contribute what 
aydes I can towards its remedy, than, being present, to re- 
new her sorrows by such expressions of resentiment as of 
course use to fall from friends. 
Evelyn, To his Brother, O. Evelyn. 
2. Resentment. 
Though this king might have retentiment 
And will t' avenge him of this injury. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, iv. 5. 
resentingly (re-zen'ting-li), adv. If. With deep 
sense or strong perception. 
Nor can I secure myself from seeming deficient to him 
that more resentingly considers the usefulness of that trea- 
tise in that I have not added another of superstition. 
Dr. H. More, Philosophical Writings, Oen. Pref. 
2. With resentment, or a sense of wrong or 
affront. 
resentive (re-zen'tiv), a. [< resent + -ive.] 
Quick to feel an injury or affront; resentful. 
From the keen retentive north. 
By long oppression, by religion rous'd, 
The guardian army came. Thomson, Liberty, iv. 
resentment (re-zent'ment), n. [Early mod. E. 
also resentiment, resseniiment ; < OF. (and F.) 
ressentiment = Sp. resentimiento = Pg. resenti- 
mento = It. risentimento, < ML. 'resentimentum, 
perception, feeling, resentment, < resentire, 
feel, resent: see resent and -went.] It. The 
state of feeling or perceiving ; strong or clear 
sensation, feeling, or perception; conviction; 
impression. 
It is a greater wonder that so many of them die with so 
little resentment of their danger. Jer. Taylor. 
You cannot suspect the reality of my resentments when 
I decline not so criminal an evidence thereof. 
Parker, Platonic Philosophy, Dedication. 
2. The sense of what is done to one, whether 
good or evil, (at) A strong perception of good ; grati- 
tude. 
We need not now travel so far as Asia or Greece for In- 
stances to enhaunse our due resentments of God's benefits. 
J. Walker, Hist Eucharist. (Xares.) 
By a thankful and honourable recognition, the convoca- 
tion of the church of Ireland has transmitted in record to 
posterity their deep resentment of his singular services 
and great abilities in this whole affair. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 74. 
(6) A deep sense of injury; the excitement of passion 
which proceeds from asense of wrong offered to one's self 
or one's kindred or friends ; strong displeasure : anger. 
In the two and thirtieth Year of his Reign, King Edward 
began to shew his Resentment of the stubborn Behaviour 
of his Nobles towards him in Times past. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 99. 
Not youthful kings in battle seized alive . . . 
E'er felt such rage, resentment, and despair, 
As thou, sad virgin ! for thy ravish'd hair. 
Pope, K. of the L., Iv. 9. 
Resentment is a union of sorrow and malignity ; a com- 
bination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a 
passion which all concur to detest. Johnson, Rambler. 
Although the exercise of resentment is beset with nu- 
merous incidental pains, the one feeling of gratified ven- 
geance is a pleasure as real and indisputable as any form 
of human delight. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 142. 
= Syn. 2. (b) Vexation, Indignation (see angerl), Irritation, 
rankling, grudge, heart-burning, animosity, vindictive- 
ness. 
reseratet (res'e-rat), v. t. [< L. reseratus, pp. 
of reserare, unlock, unclose, disclose (> It. riser- 
rare = OF. (and F. ) resserrer, shut up again), < 
re-, back, + sera, a bar for fastening a door (< 
serere, join, bind f).] To unlock; open. 
There appears no reason, or at least there has been none 
given that I know of, why the reserating operation (if I 
may so speak) of sublimate should be confined to anti- 
mony. Boyle, Works, III. 79. 
reservancet (re-zer'vans), u. [= It. riserbanza, 
riservanza; as reserve + -ance.] Reservation. 
reserve 
We [Edward R.] are pleased that the Resenance of our 
Rights and Titles ... be in general words. 
Bp. Burnet, Records, II. ii. No. 50. 
reservation (rez-er-va'shon), n. [< OF. reser- 
vation, F. rt'serration = Pr. rexemitio = Sp. re- 
servation = Pg. reservaqao = It. riserbazioiie, ri- 
servazione, reservazione,<. ML. rescrratio(n-),<. L. 
reservare, reserve: see reserve.'] 1. The act of 
reserving or keeping back; reserve; conceal- 
ment or withholding from disclosure. 
I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some 
reservation of your wrongs. Shak., All's Well, ii. 3. 260. 
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or 
disclosed, or not given up or brought forward. 
He has some reservation, 
Some concealed purpose, and close meaning sure. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. 
3. In the United States, a tract of the public 
land reserved for some special use, as for 
schools, the use of Indians, etc. : as, the Crow 
reservation. Also reserve. 
The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a 
reservation of land for the minister, and the appropriation 
of new lauds as commons or pastures to some poor men. 
Emerson, Hist. Discourse at Concord. 
4t. The state of being treasured up or kept in 
store ; custody ; safe keeping. 
He ill .1 me 
In beedf ull'st reservation to bestow them [prescriptions]. 
Shale., All's Well, i. 3. 231. 
6. In law : (a) An express withholding of cer- 
tain rights the surrender of which would other- 
wise follow or might be inferred from one's act 
(Maekeldey) ; a clause or part of an instrument 
by which something is reserved. 
I gave you all, . . . 
Made you my guardians, my depositaries ; 
But kept a reservation to be follow'd 
With such a number. Shalr., Lear, ii. 4. 256. 
(b) Technically, in the law of conveyancing, a 
clause by which the grantor of real property 
reserves to himself, or himself and his suc- 
cessors in interest, some new thing to issue 
out of the thing granted, as distinguished from 
excepting a part of the thing itself. Thus, if a 
man conveys a farm, saving to himself a field, this is an 
exception ; but if he snves to himself a right of way through 
a fleld, this is a reservation. ( c ) The right created 
by such a clause. 6. Eccles.: (a) The act or 
practice of retaining or preserving part of the 
consecrated euchanstic elements or species, 
especially that of bread, unconsumed for a 
shorter or longer period after the celebration 
of the sacrament. The practice has existed from early 
times, and is still in use in the Roman Catholic, the Greek, 
and other churches, especially to provide for the com- 
munion of the sick and prisoners, (ft) In the Roman 
Catholic Church, the act of the Pope in reserv- 
ing to himself the right to nominate to certain 
benefices. 
On the 1st of Octoberhe [the Pope) appointed Reynolds 
by virtue of the reservation, and immediately filled up the 
see of Worcester which Reynolds vacated. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 8 384. 
Indian reservation, a tract of land reserved by the 
State or nation as the domain of Indians. [U. S. ] Mental 
reservation, the intentional withholding of some word 
or clause necessary to convey fully the meaning of the 
speaker or writer ; the word or clause so withheld. Also 
called mental restriction. 
Almost all [Roman Catholic] theologians hold that it is 
sometimes lawful to use a mental reservation which may 
be, though very likely it will not be, understood from the 
circumstances. Thus, a priest may deny that he knows a 
crime which he has only learnt through sacramental con- 
fession. Rant. Cath. Diet., p. 572. 
Reservation system, the system by which Indians have 
been provided tor, and to some extent governed, by con- 
fining them to tracts of public lands reserved for the pur- 
pose, and excepting them from the rights and obligations 
of ordinary citizens. [U. S.] 
reservative (re-zer'va-tiv), a. [< reserve + 
-atire. Cf. conservative.] Tending to reserve 
or keep ; keeping ; reserving. 
reservatory (re-zer'va-to-ri), .; pi. reserva- 
tories (-riz). [= F. reservoir (> E. reservoir) = 
Sp. Pg. reserratorio, < ML. reservatoriiim, a 
storehouse, < L. reservare, keep, reserve: see 
reserve. Doublet of reservoir.'] A place in 
which things are reserved or kept. 
How I got such notice of that subterranean reservattiry 
as to make a computation of the water now concealed 
therein, peruse the propositions concerning earthquakes. 
Woodward. 
reserve (re-zerv'), p. t. ; pret. and pp. reserved, 
ppr. renn-riiig. [< ME. reserven, < OF. reserver, 
F. reserver = Pr. Sp. Pg. reserrar = It. riser- 
bare, riserrare, reservare, < L. reservare, keep 
back, < re-, back, + servare, keep : see serve. Cf. 
conserve, observe, preserve.] 1. To keep back; 
keep in store for future or other use ; preserve ; 
withhold from present use for another pur- 
pose ; keep back for a time : as, a reserved seat. 
