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motives respectively proper for the rectifying each of these 
errors; offering the ingenuous reason, and the sensual fear, 
towards their disabuse and resipiscence. W. Mountain. 
To RESI'ST, v. a. [resisto, Lat. resister, Fr.] To op¬ 
pose ; to act against. 
To do ill our sole delight. 
As being the contrary to his high will 
Whom we resist. Milton. 
To not admit impression or force.—Nor keen nor solid 
could resist that edge. Milton. 
To RESI'ST, v. n. To make opposition. 
All the regions 
Do seemingly revolt; and, who resist. 
Are mock’d for valiant ignorance. 
And perish constant fools. Shakspeare. 
RESI'STANCE, or Resi'stence, s. [ resistance , Fr. 
This word, like many others, is differently written, as it is 
supposed to have come from the Latin or the French.] The 
act of resisting; opposition.—Demetrius, seeing that the land 
was quiet, and that no resistance was made against him, 
• sent away all his forces. 1 Mac. —The quality of not 
yielding to force or external impression.—The idea of solidity 
we receive by our touch, and it arises from the resistance 
which we find in body to the entrance of any other body 
into the place it possesses. Locl e. 
For Resistance of solids, see Mechanics, p. 653, where 
the laws of the resistance of the fibres or of the cohesive 
power are set forth; and the same article, p. 673, where the 
laws of friction or the resistance of surfaces are expounded. 
RESI'ST ANT, s. Whoever or whatever opposes or resists. 
—According to the degrees of power in the agent and re - 
sistant, is an action performed or hindered. Pearson. 
RESI'STER, s. One who makes opposition. Huloet .— 
To the resisters, and violent contemners, it burns and con¬ 
sumes like lightning. 
RESISTIBI'LITY, s. Quality of resisting.—The name 
body, being the complex idea of extension and resistibility, 
together, in the same subject, these two ideas are not exactly 
one and the same. Locke. —Quality of being resistible.— 
It is from corruption, and liberty to do evil, meeting with 
the resistibility of this sufficient grace, that one resists it. 
Hammond. 
RESI'STIBLE. adj. That may be resisted.—That is 
irresistible; this, though potent, yet is in its own nature re¬ 
sistible by the will of man; though it many times prevails 
by its efficacy. Hale. 
RESI'STIVE, adj. Having power to resist. 
I have an excellent new fucus made. 
Resistive ’gainst the sun, the rain, or wind. 
Which you shall lay on with a breath or oil. B. Jonson. 
RESI'STLESS, adj. Irresistible; that cannot be opposed. 
Since you can love, and yet your error see. 
The same resistless power may plead for me. Dry den. 
She chang’d her state; 
Resistless in her love, as in her hate. Dry den. 
That cannot resist; helpless. 
Like a grim lion rushing with fierce might 
Out of his den, he seized greedily 
On the resistless prey. Spenser. 
RESI'STLESSLY, adv. So as not to be opposed or denied. 
—’Tis resistlessly plain, that the divine writers do not 
always confine themselves to plain and common grammar, 
but often express their vigorous sentiments in the language 
of the figurative construction. Black-wall. 
RESITZA, a small town of Russian Lithuania, in the 
government of Minsk; 76 miles north-west of Czernigov. 
RESOLVABLE, adj. That may be referred or reduced.—. 
Pride is of such intimate connection with ingratitude, that 
the actions of ingratitude seem directly resolvable into pride, 
as the principal reason of them. South. —Dissoluble; ad¬ 
mitting separation of parts.—As the serum of the blood is 
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resolvable by a small heat, a greater heat coagulates, so as fa 
turn it horny, like parchment. Arbuthnot.— Capable of 
solution or of being made less obscure.—The effect is won¬ 
derful in all, and the causes best resolvable from observations 
made in the countries themselves, the parts through which 
they pass. Brown. 
RE'SOLUBLE, adj. [re and solubilis, Lat.] That may be 
melted or dissolved.—Three is not precisely the number of 
the distinct elements, whereinto mixt bodies are resoluble by 
fire. Boyle. 
To RESO'LVE, v. a. [resolvo, Lat. resoudre, Fr.] To 
inform; to free from a doubt or difficulty. 
Give me some breath. 
Before I positively speak in this; 
I will resolve your grace immediately. Shakspeare. 
I cannot brook delay, resolve me now; 
And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me. Shakspeare. 
To solve; to clear.—Happiness, it was resolved by all, 
must be some one uniform end, proportioned to the capacities 
of human nature, attainable by every man, independent on 
fortune. Rogers. —To settle in an opinion. 
Long since we were resolved of your truth. 
Your faithful service, and your toil in war. Shakspeare. 
To fix in a determination. This sense is rather neutral, 
though in these examples the form be passive. 
I run to meet th’ alarms. 
Resolv'd on death, resolv'd to die in arms. Dryden. 
Resolv'd for sea, the slaves thy baggage pack ; 
Nothing retards thy voyage, unless 
Thy other lord forbids voluptuousness. Dryden . 
To fix in constancy ; to confirm. 
Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you 
For mo re amazement: 
I’ll make the statue move. Shakspeare. 
To melt; to dissolve; to disperse.—To relax; to lay at 
ease. 
And how his limbs, resolv'd through idle leisure, 
Unto sweet sleep he may securely lend. Spenser. 
To analyse ; to reduce. 
Ye immortal souls, who once were men, 
And now resolv'd to elements agen. Dryden. 
To RESO'LVE, v. n. To determine; to decree within 
one’s self. 
Confirm’d, then, I resolve 
Adam shall share with me. " Milton. 
To melt; to be dissolved. 
Have I not hideous death within my view ? 
Retaining but a quantity of life, 
Which bleeds away, ev’n as a form of wax 
Resolveth from its figure ’gainst the fire. Shakspeare. 
To be settled in opinion.—Let men resolve of that as they 
please: this every intelligent being must grant, that there is 
something that is himself, that he would have happy. 
Locke. 
RESO'LVE, s. Resolution; fixed determination. 
I’m glad, you thus continue your resolve. 
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Shakspeare. 
RESO'LVEDLY, adv. With firmness and constancy.— 
A man may be resolvedly patient unto death ; so that it is 
not the mediocrity of resolution, which makes the virtue; nor 
the extremity, which makes the vice. Grew. 
RESO'LVEDNESS, s. Resolution; constancy; firmness. 
—This resolvedness, this high fortitude in sin, can with no 
reason be imagined a preparative to its remission. Dec. of 
Chr. Piety. 
RESOLVENT, s. [resolvens, Lat.] Medicine which was 
supposed to have the power of causing solution.—In the be¬ 
ginning of inflammation, they require repellents; and in 
the increase, somewhat of resolvents ought to be mixed. 
Wiseman. 
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