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mund Andreae; “ Ethica Odini, vocata JTavamaal, una 
cum ejusdem appendice. Runa-Capitulo, Islandice et La- 
tine,” Ibid. 1665, 4to.; “ Inscriptions Havnienses,” Ibid. 
1668, 4to.; “Jus Aulicum Norvegiae, vulgo Hirdskraa, 
item Jus Aulicum vetus Danorum, vulgo Viiherlags Ret, 
Islandice, Danice, et Latine,” Ibid. 1673, 4to.; “Descriptio 
Samsose,” Ibid. 1675, fol.; “Atlas Danicus, cum fig.” 
Ibid. 1677, fol. This work consists merely of copper-plates, 
as the text was never printed. “ Gudmundi Andreae Lexi¬ 
con Islandicum,” Ibid. 1683, 4to.; “Nonnulla Antiqua 
Jura Civitatum Danise, scilicet Havniensis et Ripensis, La- 
tine, Danice, et Germanice,” Ibid. 1683, 12mo.; “Eric 
Krabbe’s German Translation of the Jutland Laws ofWalde- 
mar II.,” Cop. 1684, 4to.; “The Laws of Christian II.” 
Ibid. 1684, 4to. Aikin. 
To RESE'NT, v. a . [ressentir, Fr.] To take well or ill. 
—A serious consideration of the mineral treasures of his ter¬ 
ritories, and the practical discoveries of them by way of my 
philosophical theory, he then so well resented, that after¬ 
wards, upon a mature digestion of my whole design, he com¬ 
manded me to let your Lordships understand, how great an 
inclination he hath to further so hopeful a work. Bacon .— 
To take ill; to consider as an injury or affront. This is now 
the most usual sense. 
Thou with scorn 
•And anger would’st resent the,offer’d wrong. Milton. 
Such proceedings have been always resented, and often 
punished in this kingdom. Davenant. 
RESE'NTER, s. One who takes a thing well or ill.— 
Honour is not only the guardian and parent of other virtues, 
but is a virtue of itself, which renders man a grateful resenter 
and requiter of courtesies. Barrow. —One who feels injuries 
deeply: the most usual sense.—The earl was the worst philo¬ 
sopher, being a great resenter, and a weak dissembler of the 
least disgrace. Wotton. 
RESE'NTFUL, adj. Malignant; easily provoked to 
anger, and long retaining it; full of resentment.—To soften 
the obdurate, to convince the mistaken, to mollify the resent¬ 
ful, are worthy of a statesman. Johnson. 
RESE'NTINGLY, adv. With deep sense; with strong 
perception.—Hylobares judiciously and resentingly recapi¬ 
tulates your main reasonings. More. —With continued 
anger. 
RESE'NTIVE, adj. Quick to take ill; easily excited to 
resentment. 
From the keen resentive north. 
By long oppression, by religion, rous’d, 
The guardian army came. Thomson. 
RESE'NTMENT, s, [ressentiment, Fr.] Strong per¬ 
ception of good or ill.—This psalm begins with an hallelu¬ 
jah—in which the people of God express a just resentment 
and grateful acknowledgment of the chiefest mercies received 
by th eir'fathers. Bp. Pearson. —Deep sense of injury; 
anger long continued; sometimes simply anger. 
Can heavenly minds such high resentment show, 
Or exercise their spight in human woe ? Dri/den. 
RESERVATION, s. [ reservation, Fr.] Reserve; con¬ 
cealment of something in the mind.—Nor had I any reser¬ 
vations in my own soul when I passed that bill, nor repent- 
ings after. K. Charles ,—Something kept back; something 
not given up.—This is academical reservation in matters of 
easy truth, or rather sceptical infidelity against the evidence 
of reason. Brown. —Custody; state of being treasured up. 
He will’d me, 
In heedfull’st reservation, to bestow them 
As notes, whose faculties inclusive were, 
More than they of note. Shakspeare. 
Mental reservation isagross hypocritical sophism, whereby 
the guilt of lying is supposed to be aunulled by a deliberate 
consciousness of falsehood at the time an affirmation is made. 
A Scotch soldier swore to fight for the King of England, 
but being found in the ranks of the enemy, he explained a 
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mental reservation, that by for , he meant for the death of 
the King. 
RESERVATIVE, adj. [ rcservatif, Fr.] Reserving. 
Not now in use. Cotgrave. 
RESE'RVATORY, 5. [ reservoir, Fr.] Place in which 
any thing is reserved or kept.—How I got such notice of 
that subterranean reservatory as to make a computation of 
the water now concealed therein, peruse the propositions con¬ 
cerning earthquakes. Woodward. 
To RESERVE, v. a. [reserver, Fr. reservo, Lat.] To 
keep in store; to save to some other purpose.—I could add 
many probabilities of the names of places; but they should 
be too long for this, and I reserve them for another. Spenser. 
—To retain ; to keep ; to hold. 
Reserve thy state, with better judgment check 
This hideous rashness. Shakspeare. 
• To lay up to a future time.—The Lord knoweth how to 
deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the 
unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. 2 Pet. 
ii. 9. 
RESERVE, s. Store kept untouched, or undiscovered.— 
The assent may be withheld upon this suggestion, that I 
know not yet all that may be said ; and therefore, though I 
be beaten, it is not necessary I should yield, not knowing 
what forces there are in reserve behind. Locke .—Something 
kept for exigence.—Things are managed by advocates, who 
oftentimes seek conquest, and not justice, and ransack all re¬ 
serves of law to support an unrighteous cause. Kettlewell. 
—Something concealed in the mind.—However any one 
may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain re¬ 
serves and deviations, and with a salvo to his own private 
judgment. Addison. —Exception; prohibition. 
Is knowledge so despised ? 
Or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste ? Milton. 
Exception in favour.—Each has some darling lust, which 
pleads for a reserve, and which they would fain reconcile to 
the expectations of religion. Rogers. —Modesty; caution 
in personal behaviour. 
Ere guardian thought could bring its scatter’d aid, 
My soul surpris’d, and from herself disjoin'd. 
Left all reserve and all the sex behind. Prior. 
RESERVE Guard denotes the same as a picquet guard, 
except that the one mounts at troop- beating, and the other 
at retreat-beating. See Guard. 
RESERVED, adj. Modest; not loosely free. 
To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all. 
None could himself the favour’d lover call. Walsh. 
Sullen; not open; not frank. 
Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see, 
But sweet regards. Dry den. 
RESERVEDLY, adv. Not with frankness; not with 
openness; with reserve.—I must give only short hints, and 
write but obscurely and reservedly, until I have oppor¬ 
tunity to express my sentiments with greater copiousness and 
perspicuity. Woodward. —Scrupulously; coldly. 
He speaks reserv'dly, but he speaks with force; 
Nor can a word be chang’d, but fora worse. Pope. 
RESERVEDNESS, s. Closeness; want of frankness; 
want of openness. 
Observe their gravity 
And their reservedness, their many cautions 
Fitting their persons. B. Jenson. 
Dissimulation can but just guard a man within the compass 
of his own personal concerns, which yet may be more effec¬ 
tually done by that silence and reservedness, that every man 
may innocently practise. South. 
RESERVER, s. One that reserves.—I am in this no reser¬ 
ver of my good will till the last. Wotton. 
RESERVOIR, s. [reservoir, Fr.] Place where any thing 
is kept in store. 
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