resiance 
resiancet (rez'i-ans), n. [< OF. 'reseance, "re- 
siance, resseance, < ML. residentia, residence: 
see residence, and cf. seance. Doublet of rrxi- 
dence.~\ Besidenoe; abode. 
Resolved there to make his resiance, the seat of his prin- 
cipality. KrvMes, 1174 O. (Nares.) 
The King forthwith banished all Klemminps ... oat 
of his Kingdome, Commanding ...(... his Merchant- 
Adventurers) which had a Resiance in Antwerp, to return. 
Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 130. 
resiantt (rez'i-ant), a. and n. [< OF. resiant, 
reseant, ressearii, < L. residen(t-)s, resident: see 
resident. Doublet of resident."] I. o. Resident; 
dwelling. 
Articles concerned and determined for the Commission 
of the Merchants of this company reliant in Prussia. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 269. 
I have already 
Dealt by Umbrenus with the Allobroges 
Here resiant in Rome. B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 3. 
Resiant rolls, in law, rolls naming the resiants or resi- 
dents in a tithing, etc., called over by the steward on 
holding court-let;!. 
II. n. A resident. 
Touching the custom of "suit and service " (i. e., grind- 
ing corn, cv.e.) of the "resiantt and inhabitants of Whal- 
ley" to said antient mills . . . 
Record Soc. Lancashire and Cheshire, XI. 79. 
All manner of folk, resiants or subjects within this his 
[the King of England's] realm. 
Quoted in R. W. Dixon's Hist. Church of Eng., ill., note. 
reside (re-zld'), v. i. ; pret. and pp. resided, ppr. 
residing.' [= D. resideren = G. residiren = Dan. 
residere = Sw. residera, < OF. resider, vernacu- 
larly resier, F. resider = Sp. Pg. residir = It. 
risedere, < L. residere, remain behind, reside, 
dwell, < re-, back, + sedere, sit (= E. sit) : see 
sit. Cf. preside.] 1. To dwell permanently or 
for a considerable time ; have a settled abode 
for a time, or a dwelling or home ; specifically, 
to be in official residence (said of holders of 
benefices, etc.). 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds. 
Shak., M. for M., ill. 1. 122. 
These Sirens resided in certain pleasant islands. 
Bacon, Moral Fables, vi. 
Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, 
And winds by the cot where my Mary resides. 
Burns, Flow Gently, sweet Alton. 
2. To abide or be inherent in, as a quality; in- 
here. 
Excellence, and quantity of energy, reside in mixture 
and composition. Bacon, Physical Fables, it., Expl. 
It is in man and not in his circumstances that the secret 
of his destiny resides. Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 21. 
3f. To sink to the bottom, as of liquids ; settle ; 
subside, in general. 
The madding Winds are hush'd, the Tempests cease, 
And ev'ry rowling Surge resides in Peace. 
Congreve, Birth of the Muse. 
= Syn. 1. Sojourn, Continue, etc. (see abidei), be domi- 
ciled, be domiciliated, make a home, 
residence (rez'i-dens), n. [< ME. residence, < 
OF. residence, F. residence = Pr. residensa, rc- 
sidencia = Sp. Pg. residencia = It. residenzia, 
residenza (= D. residentie = G. residenz = Dan. 
residents = Sw. residens, < F.), < ML. residentia, 
<L. residen(t-)s, resident: see resident. Doub- 
let of resiance."] 1. The act of residing or 
dwelling in a place permanently or for a con- 
siderable time. 
What place is this? 
Sure, something more than human keeps residence here. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, ii. 2. 
I upon my frontiers here 
Keep residence. Milton, P. L., ii. 999. 
Ambassadors in ancient times were sent on special oc- 
casions by one nation to another. Their residence at for- 
eign courts is a practice of modern growth. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 89. 
2. A place of residing or abode; especially, 
the place where a person resides; a dwelling; 
a habitation. 
Within the infant rind of this small flower 
Poison hath residence and medicine power. 
Shot., R. and J., ii. 3. 24. 
What is man? . . . 
Once the blest residence of truth divine. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 387. 
In front of this esplanade [Plaza de los Algibes) is the 
splendid pile commenced by Charles V., and intended, it 
is said, to eclipse the residence of the Moorish kings. 
Irving, Alhambra, p. 57. 
3. That in which anything permanently rests 
or inheres. 
But when a king sets himself to bandy against the high- 
eat court and residence of all his regal power, he then, in 
the single person of a man, lights against his own majesty 
and kingship. Milton. 
4. A remaining or abiding where one's duties 
lie, or where one's occupation is properly car- 
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ried on; eccles., the presence of a bishop in his 
diocese, a canon in his cathedral or collegiate 
church, or a rector or an incumbent in his bene- 
fice : opposed to non-residence. 
He is ever in his parish ; he keepeth residence at all 
times. Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. 
Residence on the part of the students appears to have 
been sometimes dispensed with [at the university of Siena). 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 837. 
5. lu law : (a) The place where a man's habi- 
tation is fixed without any present intention of 
removing it therefrom; domicile. (6) An es- 
tablished abode, fixed for a considerable time, 
whether with or without a present intention of 
ultimate removal. A man cannot ttx an intentionally 
temporary domicile, for the intention that it be tempo- 
rary makes it in law no domicile, though the abode may 
be sufficiently fixed to make it in law a residence in this 
sense. A man may have two residences, but only one can be 
his domicile. The bankruptcy law uses the term residence 
specifically, as contradistinguished from domicile, so as to 
free cases nnder it from the difficult and embarrassing 
presumptions and circumstances upon which the distinc- 
tions between domicile and residence rest Residence is 
a fact easily ascertained, domicile a question difficult of 
proof. It is true that the two terms are often used as 
synonymous, but in law they have distinct meanings. 
(Bump.) See resident. 
Residence Is to be taken in its jural sense, so that a 
transient absence does not interrupt it. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, App. ill., p. 438. 
6t. (a) The settling or settlement of liquors; 
the process of clearing, as by the settling of 
sediment. (6) That wnich settles or is depos- 
ited, as the thick part of wine that has grown 
old in bottle. 
Hipoetafi [H.], a substance. Also residence in vrine flit- 
ting toward the bottom. Florio. 
(c) Any residue or remnant. 
When meate is taken quyte awaye, 
And voyders in presence, 
Put you your trenchour in the same, 
And all your residence. 
Babees Boot (E. E. T. S.), p. 80. 
Divers residences of bodies are thrown away as soon as 
the distillation or calcination of the body that yielded them 
Is ended. Boyle. 
Syn. 1. Domiciliation, inhabitancy, sojourn, stay. 2. 
Home, domicile, mansion. See abide*. 
residencer (rez'i-den-ser), w. [< ME. residen- 
cer, < OF. residencier, < ML. residentiarius, a 
clergyman in residence : see residentiary.] A 
clergyman in residence. 
Alle prechers, residencers, and persones that ar greable 
(of similar degree] . . . 
They may be set semely at a squyers table. 
/;../...-- Book (E. E. T. S.\ p. 189. 
Their humanity is a legge [bow] to the Residencer, their 
learning a Chapter, for they learne it commonly before 
they read it. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, The Common Singing-men 
[in Cathedral! Churches. 
residency (i-ez'i-den-si), n. ; pi. residencies 
(-siz). [As residence (see -cy).] 1. Same as 
residence. 
That crime, which hath so great a tincture anA residency 
in the will that from thence only It hath its being criminal. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 416. 
Specifically 2. The official residence of a 
British resident at the court of a native prince 
in India. 
Sir Henry Lawrence immediately took steps to meet the 
danger [the mutiny in Lucknow] by fortifying the resi- 
dency and accumulating stores. Encyc. Brit., XV. 50. 
3. A province or administrative division in 
some of the islands of the Dutch East Indies, 
resident (rez'i-dent), a. andn. [< ME. resident, 
< OF. resident, fesidant (vernacularly reseant, 
resiant: see resiant), F. resident, residant = Pr. 
resident = Sp. Pg. It. residente, < L. residen(t-)s, 
ppr. of residere, remain behind, reside : see 
reside.] I. a. 1. Residing; having a seat or 
dwelling; dwelling or having an abode in a 
place for a continuance of time. 
The forain merchants here resident are for the most part 
English. Sandys, Travailes, p. 7. 
Authority herself not seldom sleeps, 
Though resident, and witness of the wrong. 
Coicper, Task, iv. 694. 
2f. Fixed; firm. 
The watery pavement is not stable and resilient like a 
rock. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 829. 
3. In zool. : (a) Remaining in a place the whole 
year; not migratory: said especially of birds. 
(6) Pertaining to or consisting of residents: 
as, the resident fauna; a resident theory. 4. 
Having one's abode in a given place in pursuit 
of one's duty or occupation : as, he is minister 
resident at that court. 
II. n. 1. One who or that which resides or 
dwells in a place permanently or for a consid- 
erable time; one residing: as, the American 
residents of Paris. 2. In law, one who has a 
residence in the legal sense. See residence. 
residual 
Resident and its contrary, non-resident, are more common- 
ly used to refer to abode, irrespective of the absence of 
intention to remove. 
3. A public minister who resides at a foreign 
court: the name is usually given to ministers of 
a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. 
We have receiv'd two Letters from your Majesty, the 
one by your Envoy, the other transmitted to us from our 
Resident Philip Meadows. 
Milton, Letters of State, Oct. 13, 1658. 
This night, when we were in bed, came the resident of 
several princes (a serious and tender man) to find us out. 
Penn, Travels in Holland, etc. 
4. In zoo!., an animal, or a species of animal, 
which remains in the same place throughout 
the year: distinguished from migrant or visi- 
tant: said especially of birds. 5. In feudal 
law, a tenant who was obliged to reside on his 
lord's land, and not to depart from it. 6. In 
India: (a) Previous to the organization of the 
civil service, a chief of one of the commercial 
establishments of the East India Company. 
(6) Later, a representative of the viceroy at an 
important native court, as at Lucknow or Delhi. 
7. The governor of a residency in the Dutch 
East Indies. = Syn. i. Inhabitant, inhabiter, dweller, 
sojourn er. 
residental (rez'i-den-tal), a. [< resident +-ai."\ 
Residential. [Rare.] 
The beautiful reridmtal apartments of the Pitti Palace. 
//. James, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 303. 
residenter (rez'i-den-ter), n. [< late ME. resi- 
denter, < resident + -er 1 . Cf. residencer.] A 
resident. [Scotch and U. 8.] 
I write as a residenter for nearly three years, having an 
intimate acquaintance with " the kingdom " [of Fife] of 
some fifteen years' standing. N. and <>., 7th ser., IX. 92. 
residential (rez-i-den'shal), a. [< residence 
(ML. residentia) + -al.] Relating or pertain- 
ing to residence or to residents ; adapted or in- 
tended for residence. 
Such I may presume roughly to call a residential exten- 
sion. Gladstone. 
It [a medical college for women] has no residential hall, 
nor Is it desirable, perhaps, that it should have any. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 24. 
It may be added that residential has been good English 
at least since 1090. 
J. A. H. Murray, in N. and Q., 7th ser., VIII. 134. 
residentiary (rez-i-den'shia-ri), a. and n. [< 
ML. residentiarius, being in residence, a clergy- 
man in residence, < residentia, residence: see 
residence.'] I. a. 1. Having or keeping a resi- 
dence; residing; especially (eccles.), bound to 
reside a certain time at a cathedral church : as, 
a canon residentiary of St. Paul's. 
Christ was the conductor of the Israelites into the land 
of Canaan, and their residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More. 
There was express power given to the bishops of Lin- 
coln and London alone to create another residentiary can- 
onry in their own patronage. 
Edinburgh Rev., CLXIII. 180. 
2. Of or pertaining to a residentiary. 
Dr. John Taylor died 1766, at his residentiary house, 
Amen Corner. If. and Q., 7th ser., II. 447. 
II. n. ; pi. residentiaries (-riz). 1. One who 
or that which is resident. 
Faith, temperance, patience, zeal, charily, hope, humil- 
ity, are perpetual residentiaries in the temple of their [re- 
generate] sonls. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 65. 
The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favoured 
spot. Coleridge. 
2. All ecclesiastic who keeps a certain resi- 
dence. 
It was not then unusual, in such great churches, to have 
many men who were temporary residentiaries, but of an 
apostolical and episcopal authority. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X II. 183. 
residentiaryship (rez-i-den'shia-ri-ship), n. 
[< residentiary + -ship.] The station of a resi- 
dentiary. Imp. Diet. 
residentship (rez'i-dent-ship), n. [< resident + 
-ship.] The functions or dignity of a resident ; 
the condition or station of a resident. 
The Prince Elector did afterwards kindly invite him 
[Theodore Haak] to be his Secretary, but he, loving Soli- 
tude, declined that employment, as he did the Residentship 
at London for the City of Hamburgh. 
Wood, Athena? Oxon., II. 846. 
resider (re-zi'der), n. One who resides or has 
residence. 
residewt, An obsolete form of residue. 
residual (re-zid'u-al), a. and . [= F. residuel, 
< NL. "residualis, ( L. residuum, residue : see re- 
xidiittm, residue.] I. a. Pertaining to or having 
the character of a residuum; remaining Re- 
sidual abscess, (a) A collection of pus forming in or 
around the cicatrix of a previous inflammation. (6) A 
chronic abscess in which the contents have been mostly 
absorbed. Residual air. See ntri. Residual analy- 
sist, the calculus of differences. This is the old desig- 
nation, employed by Landen, 1764. Residual calculus, 
