result-fee 
result-fee (re-zulf f e ) , H . A fee for instruction, 
conditioned on or proportioned to the success 
or good progress of the pupil. [Eng.] 
The national-school teachers showed a decided hostility 
to payment by result-fees, oil the ground that it turned the 
pupil into a mere machine for getting money in the eyes 
of the master. Athenxum, Jan. 14, 1888, p. 52. 
resultful (re-zult'ful), a. [< result + -/?.] 
Having or producing large or important re- 
sults; effectual. [Rare.] 
It [Concord] became . . . the source of our most result- 
/ul thought. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 139. 
resultivet (re-zul'tiv), a. [< result + -ive.] Re- 
sultant. 
There is such a sympathy betwixt several sciences . . . 
that ... a resultivf firmness ariseth from their complica- 
tion. Fuller, Ch. Hist., ii., Ded. 
resultless (re-zult'les), a. [< result + -less.'] 
Without result: as, resultless investigations, 
resultlessness (re-zult'les-nes), n. The state 
or character of being resultless. Encyc. Brit., 
XVI. 557. 
resumable (re-zu'ma-bl), o. [< resume + -able.'] 
Capable of b'eing resumed; liable to be taken 
back or taken up again. 
This was but an indulgence, and therefore resuniaWe by 
the victor, unless there intervened any capitulation to the 
contrary. Sir M. Hale. 
resume (re-zum'), v. ; pret. and pp. resumed, 
ppr. resuming. [< OF. resumer, F. resumer = 
Sp. Pg. resumir = It. risumere, resumere, < L. 
resumere, take again, resume, < re-, again, + 
sumere, take: see assume, and cf. consume, de- 
sume, insume, presume."] I. trans. 1. To take 
again ; take back. 
It pleased the diuine will to resume him vnto hlmselfe, 
whither both his and euery other high and noble mlnde 
haue alwayes aspired. 
Quoted in Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. 8., extra ser.X 
[Forewords, p. vil. 
We that have conquered still, to save the conquered, . . . 
More proud of reconcilement than revenge, 
Resume into the late state of our love 
Worthy Cordelius Callus and Tibullus. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
2. To assume or take up again. 
Thou shalt find 
That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think 
I have cast off for ever. Shak., Lear, i. 4. 331. 
Fortie yeares after he shall sound agalne, and then the 
bones shall resume flesh and sinewes. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 262. 
The lessee [in New South Wales] was, however, given 
a preferential right of obtaining an annual occupation- 
license for the resumed area, which entitled him to use 
the land for grazing purposes, although not to the exclu- 
sion of any person who might be in a position to acquire 
a better tenure. 
Sir C. W. Dilke, Probs. of Greater Britain, ii. 2. 
3. To take up again after interruption ; begin 
again: as, to resume an argument or a discourse ; 
to resume specie payments. 
Here the archangel paused, . . . 
Then, with transition sweet, new speech resumes. 
MUton, P. L, xii. 5. 
The gods stand round him [Apollo] as he mourns, and 
pray 
He would resume the conduct of the day, 
Nor let the world be lost in endless night. 
Addison, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., ii. 
4f. To take; assume. [Rare.] 
Takes no account 
How things go from him, nor resumes no care 
Of what is to continue. Shak., 1. of A., ii. 2. 4. 
II. intrans. To proceed after interruption, 
as in a speech : chiefly used in the introduc- 
tory phrase to resume. 
rsum6 (ra-zu-ma'), n. [< F. resume, a sum- 
mary,^ resume, pp. of resumer, sum up, resume : 
see resume.] A summing up ; a recapitulation ; 
a condensed statement ; a summary. 
re'sume' (ra-zu-ma'), t-. t. [< resume, .] To 
make an epitome or r6sum6 of; summarize. 
[Rare.] 
The work reveals this origin In a disjolnteduess of some 
of its portions that makes it difficult to read and still 
more so to resume. Amer. Jour. Psyctwl., I. 535. 
resummon (re-sum'on), v. t. [< re- + sum- 
mon.'] 1. To summon or call again. 2. To 
recall; recover. Bacon. 
resummons (re-sum'onz), n. [< re- + sum- 
mons.'] In law, a second summons or calling of 
a person to answer an action, as where the first 
summons is defeated by any occasion. 
resumption (rf-zump'shqn), n. [= F. re'somp- 
tion = Sp. resuncion = Pg. resmnpgao = It. ri- 
sunzione, < LL. resumptio(n-), a restoration, re- 
covery (of a sick person), ML. lit. a taking up 
again, resumption, < L. resumere, pp. resumptus, 
take again, resume: see resume.] 1. The act 
of resuming, taking back, or taking again : as, 
5118 
the resumption of a grant ; specifically, in law, 
the taking again by the state of such lands or 
tenements, etc., as on false suggestion or other 
error had been granted by letters patent. 
This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of 
which we spake before (prolepsis), because of the resump- 
tion of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to ex- 
plane the same better by a particular diuision. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eug. Poesie, p. 184. 
A general act of resumption was passed, by which all the 
grants made since the king's accession were annulled. 
Stubbs, Const Hist, 345. 
Specifically 2. In U. S. hist, and politics, the 
return to specie payments by the government. 
The "more money" that is cried for, silver or shinplas- 
ter, is not the needed thing. It is ... loanable capital, 
now paralyzed with distrust by delayed resumption and 
imminent silver swindles. If. A. Rev., CXXVI. 170. 
Act of Resumption, or Resumption Act, a title of sev- 
eral English statutes of Henry VI, by which be took and 
resumed possession of offices, property, etc., previously 
granted by him, and annulled such grants. Resumption 
Act, a United States statute of 1875 (18 Stat. , 296), providi ng 
for the payment of United States treasury notes in coin 
after January 1st, 1879. 
resumptive (re-zump'tiv), a. and . [= F. re- 
sompttf = Sp. resuntivo = Pg. resumptivo = It. 
resuntivo, < LL. resumptivus, restorative, < L. re- 
sumptus, pp. of resumere, resume: see resume.'] 
I. a. Taking back or again ; tending to or of the 
nature of resumption. Imp. Diet. 
n.t n. A restoring medicine; a restorative. 
Bailey, 1731. [Rare.] 
resupinate (re-su'pi-nat), a. [= F. resupine = 
Sp. Pg. resupinado,<, L. resupinatus, pp. of resupi- 
nare, bend or turnback, overthrow, < re-, back, 
+ supinare, bend or lay backward : see supine, 
supinate.'] 1. Inverted; reversed; appearing as 
if turned upside down. 2. In bot., inverted: 
said specifically of flowers, like those of orchids, 
in which by a half -twist of the pedicel or ovary 
the posterior petal becomes lowermost; also 
of certain agaric fungi, in which the hymenium 
is on the upper instead of the under side of the 
pileus. 3. In entom., same as resupine. 
resupinated (re-su'pi-na-ted), a. [< resupinate 
+ -ed 2 .] Same as resupinate. 
resupination (re-su-pi-na'shon), n. [= F. re- 
supination = Pg. resupinac,&o,'<. L. as if "resupi- 
natio(n-), < resupinare, pp. resupinatus, bend 
back: see resupinate."] The state of being re- 
supinate. 
Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resvpi- 
nation of the figure : for which word (being in truth his 
own, for ought I know) we are almost as much beholding 
to him as for the observation itself. 
Sir B. Wottan, Rellquia?, p. 62. 
resupine (re-su-pin'), a. [= Pg. resupino = It. 
risupino, resupino, < L. resupirms, bent back or 
backward, lying on one's back, < re-, back, + 
supinus, lying on the back: see supine.'] Lying 
on the back ; supine. Also resupinate. 
Then Judge in what a tortured condition they must be 
of remorse and execrating themselves, for their most re- 
supine and senseless madness. 
Sir K. Digby, Observations. (Latham.) 
He spake, and, downward sway 'd, fell resupine, 
With his huge neck aslant. Cowper, Odyssey, Ix. 
Specifically, in entom., with the inferior surface upward, 
aa when an insect lies on its back, or any part is twisted 
so that the lower surface Is seen from above, 
resurge (re-serj'), v. i. [= OF. resourdre (> obs. 
E. resourd) = Sp. Pg. resurgir = It. risurgere, 
risorgere, resurgere, < L. resurgere, rise again, < 
re-, again, + surgere, rise: see surge. Cf. re- 
sourd, resource, resurrection, from the same 
source.] To rise again: in allusion to the 
motto resurgam, used on funeral hatchments. 
[Ludicrous.] 
Hark at the dead jokes resurying! Memory greets 
them with the ghost of a smile. 
Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, Letts'a Diary. 
resurgence (re-ser'jens), n. [< resurgen(t) + 
-ce.~] The act of rising again ; resurrection. 
Coleridge. 
Night and day . . . the never-ending resurgence of the 
human spirit against the dead weight of oppression. 
E.'Dowden, Shelley, I. 44. 
resurgent (re-ser'jent), a. and n. , [< L. resur- 
gen(t-)s, ppr. of resurgere, rise again: see re- 
surge.'] I. a. Rising again or from the dead. 
Coleridge. 
The refnirgent threatening past was making a conscience 
within him. George Eliot, Middleman*, 1x1. 
A friend . . . whose bright temper, buoyant fancy, and 
generous heart ever leaped resurgent from the strokes of 
fortune. /;. Dou-dm, Shelley, II. 59. 
II. n. One who or that which rises again; 
especially, one who rises from the dead. Syd- 
ney Smith. 
resurprise (re-ser-priz'), . [< re- + surprise, 
.] A second or fresh surprise. 
resurrectionize 
The process of this action drew on a resurprise of the 
castle by the Thebans. Bacon, War with Spain. 
resurprise (re-ser-priz'), v. t. [< re- + surprise, 
.] To surprise again ; retake unawares. 
resurrect (rez-u-rekf), v. t. [A back forma- 
tion < resurrection assumed to be based on a 
transitive verb resurrect, as connection, protec- 
tion, etc., are based on transitive verbs connect, 
protect, etc. The verb resurrect, if formed from 
the L. resurrectus, pp. of resurgere, would be in- 
transitive, with the L. sense 'rise again': see 
resurge.'] 1. To restore to life; reanimate; 
bring to public view, as what has been lost or 
forgotten. [Colloq.] 
I resurrect the whole ! put them in scene again on the 
living stage, every one with the best of his works in his 
hand. 
Benton, Abridgement of Debates of Congress, VI. 712, not*. 
2. To take from the grave, as a dead body. 
[Colloq.] 
resurrection (rez-u-rek'shon), n. [< ME. res- 
urreccioun, resurrectioun, resurexioun, < OF. re- 
surrection, F. resurrection = Pr. resurrectio Sp. 
resurreccion = Pg. resurrei^So = It. risurrezione, 
resurrezione,< LL. (N. T. and eccles.) resurrec- 
tio(n-), a rising again from the dead, < L. resur- 
gere, pp. resurrectus, rise again, appear again, in 
LL. eccles. rise again from the dead,< re-, again, 
+ surgere, rise: see resurge."] 1. In theol.: (a) 
A rising again from the dead. The doctrine of the 
resurrection has been held in three different forms : (1) 
As a literal resurrection of the self-same body which has 
been laid away in the grave : for example, "All the dead 
shall be raised up with the self-same bodies, and none 
other, although with different qualities, which shall be 
united again to their souls forever." West. Conf. of Faith, 
xxxil. 2. (2) As a resurrection from the dead, a coming 
forth from the place of the departed, but without the body 
with which the spirit was clothed in life, either with no 
body or with a new body given for the new life, and one 
either having no connection with the present earthly body 
or none that can be now apprehended : for example, "Res- 
urrection of the Body, as taught in the New Testament, is 
not a Rising again of the same Body, but the Ascent into a 
higher Body. J. F. Clarice, Orthodoxy, its Truths and 
Errors, xli. } 6. (3) The doctrine of Swedenborg, that eveiy 
man is possessed of two bodies, a natural and a spiritual, 
the latter within the former, and that at death the natural 
body Is laid aside and the spiritual body rises at once from 
the death of the natural, resurrection thus taking place 
for every one immediately upon and simultaneously with 
death. The doctrine of the resurrection has been held in 
various other forms in detail, but they may all be classed 
under one of these three general heads. 
There appeared first oure Lord to his Disciples, aftre his 
Resurreximtn. ilandevitte, Travels, p. 91. 
We therefore commit his body to the ground, . . . look- 
Ing for the general Resurrection in the last day. 
Boole of Common Prayer, Burial of the Dead. 
(6) The state which follows the resurrection; 
the future state. 
In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given In 
marriage. Mat xxiL 30. 
2. In general, a rising again ; a springing again 
into life or to a previous mode of existence; a 
restoration. 
Fix thyself firmly upon that belief of the general resur- 
rection, and thou wilt never doubt of either of the par- 
ticular resurrections, either from sin, by God's grace, or 
from worldly calamities, by God's power. 
Donne, Sermons, xil. 
3. Removal of a corpse from the grave for dis- 
section; body-snatching. [Colloq.] 
resurrectionary (rez-u-rek'shon-a-ri), a. [< 
resurrection + -ary."] 1. Restoring to life; re- 
viving. 
Old men and women, . . . ugly and blind, who always 
seemed by resurrectionary process to be recalled out of the 
elements for the sudden peopling of the solitude ! 
Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller, vii. 
2. Pertaining to or consisting in the act of 
resurrecting or digging up. [Colloq.] 
A resurrectionary operation in quest of a presumed fault 
In the mains. Elect. Rev., XXII. 288. 
resurrectionist (rez-u-rek'shon-ist), n. [= F. 
rSsurrectioniste (< E.); as resurrection + -ist.~] 
1 . One who makes a practice of stealing bodies 
from the grave for dissection : also used adjec- 
tively. [Colloq.] 
He has emerged from his resurrectionist delvings in the 
graveyards of rhyme, without confounding moral distinc- 
tions, [or] vitiating his taste. 
Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 32. 
Hence 2. One who unearths anything from 
long concealment or obscurity. [Colloq.] 
In short, . . . he was merely a resurrectionist of obsolete 
heresies. Miss Edgeworlh, Helen, xi. 
resurrectionize (rez-u-rek'shou-iz), v. t. ; pret. 
and pp. resiirrectiuxised, ppr. resurrectionizing. 
[< resurrection + -ize.J 1. To raise from the 
dead; resurrect. [Colloq. and rare.] 
Half these gentlemen are not included in the common 
collection of the poets, and must be resurrectionised at 
Stationers' Hall. Southey, To Miss Barker, April 3, 1804. 
