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RESPONSIBILITY, s. \responsibilite, Fr.] State of 
being accountable or answerable.—Where I speak of respon¬ 
sibility, I do not mean to exclude that species of it* which 
the legal powers of the country have a right finally to exact 
from those who abuse a public trust; but high as this is, there 
is a responsibility which attaches on them, from which the 
whole legitimate power of this kingdom cannot ab¬ 
solve them; there is a responsibility to conscience and to 
glory ; a responsibility to the existing world, and to that 
posterity, which men of their eminence cannot avoid for 
glory or for shame; a responsibility to a tribunal, at which 
not only ministers, but kings and parliaments, but even na¬ 
tions themselves, must one day answer. Burke. 
RESPONSIBLE, adj. [responsus, Lat.] Answerable; 
accountable.—Heathens, who have certainly the talent of na¬ 
tural knowledge, are responsible for it. Hammond. —He as 
much satisfies the itch of telling nevys ; he as much persuades 
his hearers; and all this while he has his retreat secure, and 
stands not responsible for the truth of his relations. Gov. of 
the Tongue. —Capable of discharging an obligation.—The 
necessity of a proportion of money to trade depends on 
money as a pledge, which writing cannot supply the place 
of; since the bill I receive from one man, will not be ac¬ 
cepted as security by another, he not knowing that the bill 
is legal, or that the man bound is honest or responsible. 
Locke. 
RESPO'NSIBLENESS, s. State of being obliged or qua¬ 
lified to answer. 
RESPO'NSION, s. [responsia, Lat.] The act of an¬ 
swering. 
RESPONSIVE, adj. [responsif, Fr. from responsus, 
Lat.] Answering ; making answer.—A certificate is a re¬ 
sponsive letter, or letter by way of answer. Ay life .—Cor¬ 
respondent ; suited to something else. 
Sing of love and gay desire, 
Responsive to the warbling lyre. Fenton. 
Be there Demodocus the bard of fame. 
Taught by the gods to please, when high he sings 
The vocal lay responsive to the strings. Pope. 
RESPONSORY, adj. [responsorius, Lat.] Containing 
answer. 
RESPONSORY, s. Response; responsal—Theversicle; 
the responsory. Crash ate. —These are the pretty responso- 
ries, these are the dear antiphonies.— Milton. 
RESSAULT, s. [Fr.] A projection in a building.—The 
term ressault is French, and but little used in English; 
though the want of a word of equal import pleads for its 
naturalization. Rees. 
RESSELA, [bad Latin.] Any thing which expels heat. 
Paracelsus. 
RESSUND, a small town of Sweden, in the province of 
Jamtland; 22 miles south-east of Ostersund. 
REST, s. [pept. Saxon ; ruste, Dutch.] Sleep; repose. 
All things retir’d to rest, 
Mind us of like repose. 
Milton. 
The final sleep; the quietness of death. 
Oft with holy hymns he charm’d their ears; 
For David left him, when he went to rest, 
His lyre. 
Dryden. 
Stillness; cessation or absence of motion. 
What cause 
Mov’d the Creator, in his holy rest. 
So late to build. 
Milton. 
Quiet; peace; cessation from disturbance.—Learn of me, 
for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls. St. Matt. xi. 29. 
With what a load of vengeance am I prest, 
Yet never, never can I hope for rest; 
For when my heavy burden I remove. 
The weight falls down, and crushes her I love. Dry den. 
Cessation from bodily labour.—There the weary be at rest. 
Job. iii. 17.—Support; that on which any thing leans or 
rests.—Thus they had formerly rests to fire guns upon, and 
in tilts the lance was guided over a rest or support project 
ing from the armour. 
Forth prick’d Clorinda from the throng, 
And ’gainst Tancredie set her spear in rest. Fairfax. 
Take the handle in your right hand, and clasping the blade 
of it in your left, lean it steady upon the rest, holding the 
edge a little aslant over the work, so as a corner of the thin 
side of the chissel may bear upon the rest, and the flat side 
of the chissel may make a small angle with the rest. Moxon. 
—Place of repose. 
Sustain’d by him with comforts, till we end 
In dust, our final rest, and native home. Milton. 
Final hope.—This answer would render their counsels of 
less reverence to the people, if upon those reasons, they should 
recede from what they had, with that confidence and disdain 
of the house of peers, demanded of the king; they therefore 
resolved to set up their rest upon that stake, and to go through 
with it, or perish in the attempt. Clarendon.—[quod restat, 
Lat.] Remainder; what remains. 
The power in glory shone, 
By her bent bow and her keen arrows known, 
The rest a huntress. Dryden. 
[In music.] An interval, during which the sound or voice 
is intermitted.—If there are any rests succeeding the pause, 
the performer’s attention to the leading instrument will direct 
him when these [all the parts] are to commence. Avison. 
[In poetry.] A pause or rest of the voice; a caesura. 
REST, adj. [rcstes, Fr. quod restot, Lat.] Others; 
those not included in any proposition. 
Arm’d like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. 
And by his pious labour urges theirs. Dryden. 
To REST, v. n. [from the noun; Sax. jiejxan.] To 
sleep ; to be asleep ; to slumber. 
Fancy then retires 
Into her private cell, when nature rests. ' Milton. 
To sleep the final sleep; to die. 
Teyov varvov 
K osfAXTau idvryxeiv p.’/j Xeye r ov$ aycckiovc. 
Glad I’d lay me down, 
As in my mother’s lap; there I should rest 
And sleep secure. Milton. 
To be at quiet; to be at peace ; to be without disturbance. 
Thither let us tend 
From off the tossing of these fiery waves, 
There rest, if any rest can harbour there. Milton. 
To be without motion ; to be still.—Over the tent a cloud 
shall rest by day. Milton. —To be fixed in any state or 
opinion.—He will not rest content, though thougivest many 
gifts. Prov. vi. 35. 
There yet survives the lawful heir 
Of Sancho’s blood, whom, when I shall produce, 
I rest assur’d to see you pale with fear. Dryden. 
To cease from labour. 
From work 
Resting, he bless’d the seventh day. Milton. 
To be satisfied; to acquiesce. 
To urge the foe to battle 
Prompted by blind revenge and wild despair, 
Were to refuse the awards of providence. 
And not to rest in heaven’s determination. Addison. 
To lean ; to recline for support or quiet. 
On him I rested. 
And not without considering, fix’d my fate. Dryden. 
[Resto, Lat. rester, Fr.] To be left; to remain. 
Fall’n he is; and now 
What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass 
On his transgression. Milton. 
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