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Under this description came unguents, plasters, &c.; but 
these things have no resolvent power. They stimulate or 
sooth, and no other action is possible. 
RESO'LVER, s. One that forms a firm resolution.—Thy 
resolutions were not before sincere; consequently God, that 
saw that, cannot be thought to have justified that unsincere 
resolver , that dead faith. Hammond.- —-Whoever or what¬ 
ever solves or clears.—A good resolver of all cases of con¬ 
science. Burnet.— What dissolves; what separates parts; 
what disperses.-—It may be doubted, whether or no the fire 
be the genuine and universal resolver of mixed bodies. 
Boyle. 
RESOLUTE, adj. \resolu, Fr.] Determined; fixed; 
constant; steady; firm. 
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn 
The power of man; for none of woman bom 
Shall harm Macbeth. Shakspeare. 
RE'SOLUTE, s. A determined person; one bent to a 
particular purpose. 
Young Fortinbras 
Hath, in the skirts of Norway, here and there, 
Shark'd up a list of landless resolutes, 
For food and diet, to some enterprise 
That hath a stomach in’t. Shakspeare. 
RE'SOLUTELY, adv. Determinately; firmly; con¬ 
stantly ; steadily.—Some of those facts he examines, some he 
resolutely denies; others he endeavours to extenuate, and 
the rest he distorts with unnatural turns. Swift. 
RE'SOLUTENESS, s. Determinateness; state of being 
fixed in resolution.—All that my resoluteness to make use 
of my ears, not tongue, could do, was to make them ac¬ 
quiesce. Boyle. 
RESOLUTION", s. [resolutio, Lat. resolution, Fr.] Act 
of clearing difficulties.—The unravelling and resolution of 
the difficulties that are met with in the execution of the de¬ 
sign, are the end of an action. Dry den and Lee. —Analysis; 
act of separating any thing into constituent parts.—To the 
present impulses of sense, memory, and instinct, all the 
sagacity of brutes may be reduced; though witty men, by 
analytical resolution , have chymically extracted an artificial 
logic out of their actions. Hale. —-Dissolution.—-In the hot 
springs of extreme cold countries, the first heats are unsuffer- 
able, which proceed out of the resolution of humidity con¬ 
gealed. Digby. —Fixed determination; settled thought. 
F th’ progress of this business. 
Ere a determinate resolution. 
The bishop did require a respite. Shakspeare. 
Constancy; firmness; steadiness in good or bad. 
What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 
If not what resolution from despair. Milton. 
Determination of a cause in courts of justice.-—Nor have 
we all the acts of parliament or of judicial resolutions, 
which might occasion such alterations. Hale. 
Resolution of Equations in Algebra, see Algebra. 
RESOLUTION BAY, a bay on the west coast of St. 
Christina, one of the Marquesas islands, in the South Pacific 
ocean. It has sometimes been called the Port of Mendana, 
as having been discovered by that Spanish circumnavigator 
in 1595, and, as well as the islands, received his name. It 
obtained the name of Resolution Bay, in consequence of that 
ship anchoring there the 7th of April 1774, in Captain Cook’s 
second voyage round the world. The neighbouring country 
is well inhabited. All the north side of the land here is a 
black burnt hill, to the summit of which several vallies lead 
from the beach. Along the top, which seems steep, appear 
fortified villages, inclosed by palisadoes. The vallies in this 
bay are full of trees. Lat. 9. 55. S. long. 139. 8. W. 
RESOLUTION ISLAND, one of the-Society Islands, in 
the South Pacific ocean, about 4 miles long. It is low and 
woody, scarcely emerging above the sea. Lat. 17. 24. S. 
long. 141. 39. W. 
RESOLUTION ISLAND, an island in the North Atlantic 
ocean, 60 miles in circumference, 'Situated on the north side 
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of the entrance into Hudson’s straits. Lat. 61. 40. N. long. 
65. W. 
RESOLUTION PORT, a bay or harbour of the island of 
Tanna, in the South Pacific ocean. Lat. 19. 32. S. long. 
169. 40. E. 
RESOLU'TIONER, s. One who joins in the declaration 
of others.-—A great division followed in the kirk; those who 
adhered to these resolutions were called the public resolu- 
tioners. Burnet. 
BJE'SOLUTIVE, adj. [resolutus, Lat. resolutif, Fr.] 
Having the power to dissolve or relax. 
RE’SONANCE, s. [resorio, Lat] Sound; resound.— 
An ancient musician informed me, that there were some 
famous lutes that attained not their full seasoning and best 
resonance, till they were about fourscore years old. Boyle. 
RE'SONANT, adj. [resonans, Lat.] Resounding. 
His volant touch 
Fled and pursu’d transverse the resonant fugue. Milton. 
To RESO'RB, v. a. [resorbeo, Lat.] To swallow up. 
A race 
Most wretched, but from streams of mutual love; 
And uncreated, but for love divine; 
And, but for love divine, this moment, lost, 
By fate resorb'd, and sunk in endless night. Young. 
RESO'RBENT, adj. [resorbens, Lat.] Swallowing up. 
Again resorbent ocean’s wave 
Receives the waters, which it gave. 
From thousand rills with copious currents fraught. Wodhull. 
To RESO'RT, v, n. [ressortir, Fr.] To have recourse.— 
The king thought it time to resort to other counsels, and to 
provide force to chastise them, who had so much despised all 
his gentler remedies. Clarendon.- —To go publicly. 
Thither shall all the valiant youth resort. 
And from his memory inflame their breasts 
To matchless valour. Milton. 
To repair to. 
The sons of light 
Hasted, resorting to the summons high. Milton. 
To fall back.—In law. The inheritance of the son never 
resorted to the mother or to any of her ancestors, but both 
were totally excluded from the succession. Hale. 
RESO'RT, 5 . Frequency; assembly; meeting.—-Un¬ 
known, unquestion’d in that thick resort. Dry den. —Con¬ 
course ; confluence.—The like places of resort are frequented 
by men out of place. Swift. —Act of visiting.-—Join with 
me to forbid him her resort. Shakspeare. — [Resort, Fr.] 
Movement; active power; spring: a gallicism. 
In fortune's empire blindly thus we go, 
We wander after pathless destiny, 
Whose dark resorts since prudence cannot know, 
In vain it would provide for what shall be. Dry den. 
RESORT, Loch, an extensive arm of the sea, on the 
west coast of the island of Lewis, one of the Hebrides, form¬ 
ing the division between Lewis and Harris. 
RESO'RTER, s. One that frequents, or visits.—’Tis the 
better for you that your resorters stand upon sound legs. 
Shakspeare. 
RESOUL, the Messenger, a name of Mahomet. 
RESOULABAD, a town of Hindostan, province of Agra, 
and district of Etaweh. Lat. 26. 38. N. long. 79. 47. E. 
To RESOU'ND, v. a. [resono, Lat. resonner, Fr,] To 
echo; to sound back; to return as sound. 
With other echo late I taught your shades, 
To answer and resound fax other song. 
Milton. 
To celebrate by sound. 
The sound of hymns, wherewith thy throne 
Encompass’d shall resound the ever blest. 
Milton. 
To sound; to tell so as to be heard far. 
The man, for wisdom’s various arte renown’d, 
Long exercis’d in woes, oh muse! resound. 
Pope. 
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