4 RES 
and variously three-cleft; two lower ones narrow, and 
almost simple. 
11. Reseda phyteuma, or scentless mignonette.—Native 
of the south of Europe and north of Africa. The root is 
long and tapering. Stems very numerous, a span high, 
composing a large spreading tuft. Leaves broadish, taper¬ 
ing at the base; some of them simply obovate; others with 
a pair of lateral lobes. Flowers cream-coloured, in lax 
simple clusters. Calyx very much enlarged, and reflexed, 
after flowering. Petals four; the lower pair, in particular, 
elegantly pectinated at one side; but all of them are liable 
to vary, in the number and depth of their segments. Fruit 
pendulous, obovate, angular. Styles three. 
12. Reseda Mediterranea, or Mediterranean mignonette.— 
Native of Palestine and of the Archipelago. This is a 
hardy annual, flowering all the summer, agreeing very 
much in appearance with the last, but still more with the 
following. The flowers have no scent. Their petals are six, 
most resembling those of reseda lutea in figure, but white, 
not yellow. The leaves are broader, and less divided, than 
in lutea, as well as quite flat; they vary, however, greatly 
in breadth, but are never undulated. The calyx is short, 
never enlarged like that of reseda phyteuma. 
13. Reseda adorata, or sweet mignonette.'—Native of 
Egypt. Well known throughout the gardens of Europe, as 
a hardy annual, blooming all the year round, if properly 
sheltered, and exhaling from its minute flowers, a delicious 
scent. This odour remains long in wooden boxes, where 
the flowers are dried. The petals are of a pale buff’, prettily 
contrasted with the red anthers. 
Propagation and Culture. —The last species is that which 
is chiefly cultivated in our gardens. This is raised from seed, 
which should be sown on a moderate hot-bed in March, and 
when the plants are strong enough to transplant, be pricked 
out upon another moderate hot-bed to bring them forward, 
having a large share of air in warm weather, to prevent their 
drawing up weak. Or they may be sown in pots of light 
mould, and plunged in the hot-bed, which is probably the 
better practice. In the first mode, about the end of May 
the plants may be planted out, some into pots, to place in 
or near the apartments, and others into warm borders, 
where they may remain to flower and seed. The plants 
which grow in the full ground, often produce more seeds 
than those which are in pots; but at the time when the 
seed-vessels begin to swell, the plants are frequently apt to 
be infested with green caterpillars, which, if they are not 
destroyed, eat off all the seed-vessels. 
And when the seeds are sown on a bed of light earth in 
April, the plants come up very well; and when not trans¬ 
planted, grow larger than those which are raised in the hot¬ 
bed ; but they do not flower so early, and in cold seasons 
scarcely ripen their seeds. In a warm dry border, how¬ 
ever, the seeds often come up spontaneously, and grow 
very luxuriantly; but to have the flowers early in spring, 
the seeds should be sown in pots in autumn, being kept in 
frames through the winter, or on a gentle hot-bed in 
spring. The plants may also be preserved through the 
winter in a green-house, where they continue flowering most 
part of the year, but the second year they are not so vigor¬ 
ous as in the first. 
The seed becomes ripe in the beginning of the autumn, 
when it should be carefully collected in a dry season, and 
put by in a dry place for future use, after having been pro¬ 
perly cleaned. 
RESE'CTION, s. [resection , Fr.] Act of cutting or par¬ 
ing off. Cotgravc and Sherwood. 
To RESEI'ZE, v. a. To seize, or lay hold on, again.— 
To reinstate. See To Reseige. 
In wretched prison long he did remaine, 
Till they outraigned had their utmost date, 
And then therein reseized was againe, 
And ruled long with honorable state 
Till he surrendered realme and life to fate. Spenser. 
^ RESEI'ZER, s. One that seizes again. 
RES 
RESEI'ZURE, s. Repeated seizure; seizure a second 
time.—Here we have the charter of foundation ; it is now 
the more easy to judge of the forfeiture or reseizure: deface 
the image, and you divest the right. Bacon. 
RESE'MBLABLE, adj. [resembler , Fr.] That may be 
compared. Obsolete. 
Man, of soul reasonable, 
Is to an angell resemblable. Gower. 
RESEMBLANCE, s. [resemblance, Ft.'] Likeness; si¬ 
militude ; representation.'—One main end of poetry and 
painting is to please ; they bear a great resemblance to each 
other. Dry den. —The quality produced hath commonly no 
resemblance with the thing producing it; wherefore we look 
on it as a bare effect of power. Locke. —Something resem¬ 
bling.—These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, 
are resemblances formed according to things spiritual, 
whereunto they serve as a hand to lead, and a way to direct. 
Hooker. 
To RESE'MBLE, v. a. [resembler, Fr.] To compare; 
to represent as like something else.—Most safely may we re¬ 
semble ourselves to God, in respect of that pure faculty, which 
is never separate from the love of God. Ralegh. —To be 
like; to have likeness to.—If we see a man of virtues, 
mixed with infirmities, fall into misfortune, we are afraid that 
the like misfortunes may happen to ourselves, who resemble 
the character. Addison. 
To RESF/ND, v. a. To send back; to send again. Not 
now in tise. 
I sent to’ her, by this same coxcomb, 
Tokens and letters, which she did resend. Shakspeare. 
RESENIUS (John Paul), a Danish bishop and writer, 
was born at Resen, in 1561. He studied at various schools, 
and in 1583- became subdirector of that at Viborg. Some 
time after he travelled into foreign countries, took a degree 
at Wittemberg, and returned to Denmark in 1591. He 
was afterwards appointed professor of logic and theology in 
the university of Copenhagen, and received orders to accom¬ 
pany Christian IV., who proposed a visit to England to see 
his relation, King James. In consequence of another royal 
mandate, he undertook to translate the whole of the scrip¬ 
tures into Danish. He completed the New Testament first, 
which he published in two vols. 12mo. in 1605, and the 
Old Testament followed in 1607. This version of the bible 
gave rise, in 1609, to a controversy between Resenius and 
Ivarus Stuboeus, professor of Hebrew at Copenhagen, the 
result of which was, that Stuboeus was displaced from his 
office. In 1614, he was involved in another dispute with" 
Olaf Coccius, the clergyman of Nicolas’ church, Copenha¬ 
gen, which ended in the disgrace and banishment of his 
opponent. Resenius was raised to the episcopal chair. He 
died in 1638, and bequeathed upwards of 5000 dollars to cha¬ 
ritable purposes. He was author of many works, chiefly on 
subjects connected with theology. Gen. Biog. 
RESENIUS (Peter), counsellor of state in Denmark, 
was descended from a respectable family, his father, as well 
as his paternal and maternal grandfather, having been suc¬ 
cessively bishops of Seland. He was born at Copenhagen 
in 1625, and in 1646 went to Leyden, where he applied 
to the study of jurisprudence and the belles lettres for four 
years; and then made a tour to France, Spain, and Italy. 
Having taken the degree of doctor of laws at Padua, he re¬ 
turned to Copenhagen, where he married in 1655, and two " 
years after was appointed professor of moral philosophy. 
In 1680 he was ennobled, and in 1684 was nominated a 
counsellor of state. This learned man died in 1688, and 
bequeathed a thousand rix-dollars, together with his valuable 
library, a catalogue of which %vas published, to the Univer¬ 
sity of Copenhagen. He was the author of various works, 
among which were the following: “ Edda Islandorum Snor- 
ronis Sturlae, Islandice, Danice, et Latine,” Havn. 1665, 
4to.; “ Philosophia antiquissima Norvego-Danica dicta 
Voluspa, quse est pars Edda Saemundi,” Ibid. 1665, 4t<x, 
and 1673, with an explanation or commentary by Gud- 
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