restitution 
< rvstituere, pp. rcstitutuy, set up again, restore : 
see restitute.] 1. The act of returning or re- 
storing what has been lost or taken away; the 
restoring to a person of some thing or right of 
which he has been deprived: as, the restitution 
of ancient rights to the crown. 
We yet crave restitution of those lands, 
Those cities sack'd, those prisoners, and that prey 
The soldier by your will stands master of. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, i. 1. 
2 The act of making good or of giving an 
equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; 
indemnification. 
" Repentest thow ueuere?" quath Repentaunce, " 
tftMton madest ? " Piers Plowman (C), vu. 234. 
A free release 
From restitution for the late affronts. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iv. 3. 
If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and 
shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man s 
field -of the best of his own field, and of the best of his 
own vineyard, shall he make restitution. Ex. xxii. 5. 
3 The putting of things back to their former 
relative positions. 4. In law: (a) The putting 
of a person in possession of lands or tenements 
of which he had been unlawfully disseized. (0) 
The restoration of what a party had gained by 
a judgment or order, upon the reversal of such 
adjudication by appeal or writ of error. 5. In 
theol., the restoration of the kingdom of Uod, 
embracing the elevation, not only of all his sin- 
ful creatures, but also of all the physical crea- 
tion, to a state of perfection. See apocatastasis. 
Coefficient Of restitution, the ratio of the relative 
velocity of two balls the instant after their impact to 
their relative velocity the instant before. Force 01 
restitution, a force tending to restore the relative po- 
sitions of parts of a body. -Interdict of restitution, 
See interd&t, 2 (b).- Restitution Edict, m German hut., 
an edict issued A. D. 1629 by the Emperor 1 erdiuand II. : 
it required the Protestants to restore to the Roman Catho- 
lic authorities all ecclesiastical property and sees which 
they had appropriated at the peace of Passau in 1552. 
Restitution of conjugal rights, in law, , a species of 
matrimonial action which hasTieen allowed in some iu- 
risdictions, for redress against a husband or wife who 
lives apart from the other without a sufficient reason. 
Restitution of minors, in law, a restoring of minors to 
rights lost by deeds executed during then- minority. 
Writ of restitution, in law, a writ which lies where 
judgment has been reversed, to restore to the defendant 
what he has been deprived of by the judgment. = Syn. 
1-3. Restoration, return. 
restitutive (res'ti-tu-tiv), o. [< restitute -J 
-ive.] Pertaining to or characterized by resti- 
tution, in any sense. 
Under any given distortion within the limits of restitu- 
tive power, the restitution-pressure is equal to the product 
of the coefficient of restitution into the distortion. 
A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 235. 
restitutor (res'ti-tu-tor), n. [= F. restituteur 
= Sp. Pg. restituidor = It. restitutore, < L. res- 
titutor, a restorer, < restituere, restore : see res- 
titute.'] One who makes restitution ; a restorer. 
Their rescuer, or restitutor, Quixote. 
Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 124. 
restive (res'tiv), a. [Early mod. E. also restiff, 
and with loss of the terminal / (as m jolly < 
jolif), restie, resty (see restyi); < ME. rest^f, 
restiff, < OF. restif, fern, restive, "restie, stub- 
born, drawing backward, that will not go for- 
ward" (Cotgrave), F. restif, fern, restive = Pr. 
restiu = It. restio, < ML. as if 'restivus, dis- 
posed to rest or stay, < L. restore, stay, rest: 
see res* 2 . By transition through the sense ' im- 
patient under restraint ' (def. 4), and partly by 
confusion with restless, the word has taken in 
present use the additional sense 'restless' (def. 
5).] 1. Unwilling to go or to move forward; 
stopping; balky; obstinate; stubborn. Com- 
pare def. 5. 
Since I haue shewed you by reason that obedience is 
just and necessary, by example that it is possible, be not 
restive in their weake stubburnness that will either keepe 
T Certaine 'Learned and Elegant Workes, etc. (1633), p. 280. 
The people remarked with awe and wonder that the 
beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the 
eallows became restive and went back. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., v. 
2f. Not easily moved or worked ; stiff. 
Farrage in restyf lande ydounged eek 
Is doone, X strike is for oon acre even. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 181. 
3t. Being at rest; being less in motion. 
Palsies oftenest happen upon the left side; the most 
vigorous part protecting itself, and protruding the matter 
upon the weaker and restive side. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. (Lot/Mm.) 
5115 
Socrates had as restive a constitution as his neighbours, 
and yet reclaim'd it, all by the strength of his philosophy. 
Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, in. < . . 
restorative 
The nation without regret and without enthusiasm 
recognized the Lancastrian restoration. 
. , 
4. Impatient under restraint or opposition; 
recalcitrant. 
The subject . . becomes restive. 
Gladstone, State and Church, vi. 
5. Refusing to rest or stand still; restless: said 
especially of horses. 
For maintaining his seat, the horseman should depend 
upon ins thighs and knees ; ... at times, of course, when 
on zresUve horse, every available muscle may have to be 
brought into play. &W- Bnt., XII. 186. 
restively (res'tiv-li), adv. In a restive man- 
restiveness (res'tiy-nes), n. The state or char- 
acter of being restive, in any sense. 
When there be not stonds and restiveness in a man's na- 
ture . . the wheels of his mind keep way with the 
wheels of his fortune. Bacon, Fortune. 
restless (rest'les), a. [< ME. resiles, restelees, 
< AS. restleds (= D. rusteloos = G. rastlos = 
Sw. Dan. rastlos), < rest, rest, + -leas, E. -less.] 
Without rest, (a) Deprived of repose or sleep; un- 
able to sleep; sleepless. 
Better be with the dead . . . 
Than on the torture of the mind to lie 
In restless ecstasy. Shak., Macbeth, m. 2. 22. 
Restless he passed the remnants of the night. 
Dryden, Annus Mu-abilis, st. 102. 
(6) Unresting ; unquiet ; uneasy ; continually moving or 
agitated. 
The courser pawed the ground with restless feet. 
And snorting foamed, and champed the golden bit. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., "' 
mill-girl watching late and long the shuttle'! 
pl a y ; Whittier, Mary 
He lost his color, he lost his appetite, he was restless, in- 
capable of keeping still. t .. 
(c) Marked by unrest: as, a restless night, 
not satisfied to be at rest or in peace : as, a 
cian ; restless ambition ; restless passions. 
In a valey of this resiles mynde 
I soujte in mounteyne & in myde, 
Trustynge a trewe loue for to fynde. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furmvall), p. 150. 
Restless was his soul, and wandered wide 
Through a dim maze of lusts unsatisfied. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 12. 
(e) Inclined to agitation ; turbulent: as, restless subjects. 
Nature had given him [Sunderland] . . . a restUts and 
mischievous temper. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. 
(/) Unsettled ; disposed to wander or to change place or 
condition. 
She 's proud, fantastic, apt to change, 
Restless at home, and ever pi-one to range. 
Dryden, State of Innocence, v. 1. 
Alone he wanders by the murmuring shore, 
His thoughts as restless as the waves that roar. 
O. W. Holmes, The Disappointed Statesman. 
(g) Not affording rest ; uneasy. [Rare.] 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendent world. Shak., M. for M., in. 1. 125. 
But restless was the chair ; the back erect 
Distressed the weary loins, that felt no ease. 
Cowper, Task, i. 44. 
Restless cavy. See cavy. Restless flycatcher, Sei- 
ra iWuwta, an Australian bird, called by the colonists 
grinder. See cut under Seisura. = Syn. (a-c) Disturbed, 
disquieted, agitated, anxious. (/) Roving, wandering, 
unstable, fickle. 
restlessly (rest'les-li), adv. In a restless man- 
ner; unquietly. 
restlessness (rest'les -nes), n. The state or 
character of being restless, in any sense. 
restor, . See restaur. 
restorable (re-stor'a-bl), a. [< restore^ + -a6je.] 
Capable of being restored, or brought to a for- 
mer condition. 
I may add that absurd practice of cutting turf without 
any regularity ; whereby great quantities of restorable land 
are made utterly desperate. Swift, Drapier's Letters, vii. 
restorableness (re-stor'a-bl-nes), n. The state 
or character of being restorable. Imp. IHct. 
restoralt (re-stor'al), n. [< restore* + -al] Res- 
titution ; restoration. 
Promises of pardon to our sins, and restoral into God's 
favour. Barrow, Works, II. iv. 
restoration (res-to-ra'shon), n. [Formerly also 
restauration; < ME. restauracion, < OF. restora- 
tion, restauration, F. restauration = Pr. restau- 
racio = Sp. restauracion = Pg. restauraqao = It. 
restaurazione, ristorazione, < LL. restauratio(n-), 
a restoration, renewal, < L. restaurare, pp. res- 
tauratus, restore: see restored] 1. The act of 
restoring, (o) The replacing in a former state or posi- 
tion return : as, the restoration of a man to his office ; the 
restoration of a child to its parents. Compare phrase 
below. 
Christ as the cause original of restauration to life. 
(6) Renewal revival ; reestablishment ; as, the restoration 
of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace 
after war; the restoration of a declining commerce. 
After those other before mentioned, followeth a prayer 
for the good sort, for proselytes, reedifying of the Temple, 
for sending the Messiaa and restauratwn of their King- 
dome. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 197. 
2 In arc*, and art, the repair of injuries suffered. 
In restoration, even when most carefully done, the new 
work cannot reproduce the old exactly; however, when a 
monument must be restored for its preservation correct 
practice demands that every fragment possible of the old 
be retained in the new work, so as to preserve as far as may 
be the artistic quality of the old, and that the original de- 
sign be followed with the utmost care. 
Thence to the Sorbonne, an antient fabriq built by one 
Robert de Sorbonne, whose name it retains ; but the restau- 
ration which the late Cardinal de Richlieu has made to it 
renders it one of the most e 
The pampered colt will discipline di, 
patient of the lash, and resti/ to the rein. 
' 
Impat 
disdain, 
, the rein. 
rsnjden, tr. of Virgil's Oeorgics, iii. 324. 
Men's ignorance leads them to expect the renovation to 
restauration of things, from their corruption and remains. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ix., Expl. 
Christ Church Cathedral [Dublin] is now in courseof 
restoration. Encye. Bnt., vu. sou. 
3 A plan or design of an ancient building, etc. , 
snowing it in its original state : as, the restora- 
tion of a picture ; the restoration of a cathedral. 
4 The state of being restored ; recovery ; re- 
newal of health and soundness ; recovery from 
a lapse or any bad state: as, restoration from 
sickness. 
O my dear father ! Restoration hang 
Thy medicine on my lips ; and let this kiss 
Repair those violent harms ! Shak. , Lear, iv. 7. 26. 
Trust me the ingredients are very cordiall, . . . and 
most powerfull in restauration. 
Marston and Webster, Malcontent, ii. 4. 
5. In theol. : (a) The recovery of a sinner to 
the divine favor. 
The scope of St. John's writing is that the restoration of 
mankind must be made by the Son of God. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 264. 
(6) The doctrine of the final recovery of all men 
from sin and alienation from God to a state 
of blessedness; universal salvation: a form of 
Universalism. 6. That which is restored. 7. 
In milit. service, repayment for private losses 
incurred by persons in service, such as horses 
killed or arms destroyed. 8. In paleon., the 
putting together in their proper places of the 
bones or other remains of an extinct animal; 
also, the more or less ideal representation of the 
external form and aspect of such an animal, as 
inferred from its known remains. See cuts 
under Dinotherium, Iguanodon, and Labyrintho- 
don.Q. In musical notation, the act, process, 
or result of canceling a chromatic sign, whe- 
ther 9, b, or fl, and thus bringing a degree of the 
staff or a note on it back to its original sigmn- 
cation.-The Restoration, (o) In Eng hist., the rees- 
tablishment of the English monarchy with the return of 
King Charles II. in 1660; by extension, the whole reign 
of Charles II.: as, the dramatists of the Restoration (b) 
In Jewish hist., the return of the Jews to Palestine about 
537 B c. ; also, their future return to and possession of the 
Holy Land as expected by many of the Jewish race, and by 
others, (e) In French hist., the return of the Bourbons to 
power in 1814 and-after the episode of the "Hundred 
Days "-in 1815. =Syn. 1 and 2. Renovation, redintegra- 
tion reinstatement, return, restitution. See restore*. 
restorationer (res-to-ra'shon-er), n. [< restora- 
tion + -erl.] A restorationist. Imp. Diet. 
restorationism (res-to-ra'shon-izm), n. ^res- 
toration + -ism.-] The doctrines or belief of the 
restorationists. 
We cannot pause to dwell longer upon the biblical evi- 
dence which has in all ages constrained the evangelical 
church to reject all forms of restoratwmsm. 
Biblwtheea Sacra, XLV. 717. 
restorationist (res-to-ra'shon-ist), n. [< resto- 
ration + -ist.] One who believes in the tem- 
porary punishment of the impenitent after 
death, but in the final restoration of all to holi- 
ness and the favor and presence of God. See 
Vniversalism. 
restorative (re-stor'a-tiv), a. and n, [< ME. 
restoratyve, restauratife, < OF. restauratij = Pr. 
restauratiu = Sp. Pg. restawrativo = It. ristora- 
tivo, < ML. restaurativus (in neut. restaurativum, 
a restorative). < L. restaurare, restore : see re- 
store*.] I. a. Pertaining to restoration; spe- 
cifically, capable of restoring or renewing vi- 
tality or strength. 
Your Presence would be a Cordial to me more restora- 
tive than exalted Gold. Howell, Letters, I. ii. S. 
II. n. That which is efficacious in restoring 
vigor; a food, cordial, or medicine which re- 
cruits the vital powers. 
I will kiss thy lips ; 
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them. 
To make me die with a restorative. 
Shak., R. and J., v. 3. 166. 
