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▪ I. reˈsign, n. rare.
[f. the vb.]
Resignation.
1639Chapman & Shirley Chabot v. sig. H3v, My free Resigne of title, office,..would buy my poore lives safety. 1640Shirley Constant Maid i. i, To delay The free resign of that your worth may challenge. 1640― Coronation iv. i, You have gain'd more in a royall brother Then you could lose by your resigne of Epire. 1971J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore iv. 159 It was a pistol shot that laid Pete out, It was his last resign.
▪ II. resign, v.1|rɪˈzaɪn|
Forms: 4–6 resygn(e, 6 reasygne, 4– resign; 5 resyne, 5–6 resine; 5 res(s)yng(e, 6 Sc. resing.
[ad. OF. resigner (13th c.), † resiner (= Sp. and Pg. resignar, It. ri-, rassegnare), ad. L. resignāre to unseal, cancel, give up, f. re- re- 2 d + signāre to sign.]
I. trans.
1. To relinquish, surrender, give up, or hand over (something). Also with up (now rare) and const. to a person, into one's hands.
a. an office, position, right, claim, etc.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 64 Þei..resignen not here benefis goten þus by symonye. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 415 He resignede his dignite to Linus. c1400Brut cl. 162 Here y resyngn op þe crone of þe reaume of Engeland into þe Popis Hande. c1440J. Capgrave St. Kath. iv. 93 But these same..leften here honour and resigned her right. 1544Supplic. Hen. VIII (E.E.T.S.) 33 If he repent not, and reasygne vp hys offyce, which he can not execute. 1591Spenser M. Hubberd 573 To whom their living they resigned quight For a few pence. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 767 Sigebert..resigned vp his kingdome. 1671Milton P.R. i. 27 The Baptist..would have resign'd To him his Heavenly Office. 1731Fielding Lottery Air xx, Resign over all pretensions in her to me. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ., Paris, I..should have resigned all my places one after another. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 348 Upon his resigning the great seal. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 92 The see of York, the ancient claims of which to equality with Canterbury he was forced to resign. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 339/2 Non-commissioned officers are not allowed to resign their situation to escape trial by court-martial.
fig.1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1039 Her eyes..resign their office and their light To the disposing of her troubled brain. 1781Cowper Hope 33 Would age in thee resign his wintry reign, And youth invigorate that frame again.
b. something pertaining to one or in one's possession or charge.
The uses in quots. 1600 and 1615 are uncommon.
c1450Godstow Reg. 202 Elenore..resinid & quiet-claimyd..to þe house of seint Iohn baptiste of Godestowe..iiij. d of rente. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 713 That all Northumberland And Cumbria he sould frelie resing, Into the handis of this Dauid king. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 176 Take but my shame, and I resigne my gage. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 207 The Duke exhorted Tristan Vaz with many reasons to resigne the forte. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 4 Resigne then what thou owest, or forbeare To taxe our credits when our skore's not cleere. 1667Milton P.L. x. 749 Desirous to resigne, and render back All I receav'd. 1731Swift Consid. Two Bills Wks. 1751 XII. 103 The late Archbishop..stipulated with the Tenant to resign up twenty or thirty Acres to the Minister of the Parish. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. IV. 347 The divorced wife resigned the bunch of keys, by the delivery of which she had been invested with the government of the family. 1838Lytton Alice i. i, You resigned all that would have attracted others. 1839Thirlwall Greece xlvi. VI. 73 The commonwealth was required..to resign a great part of its foreign possessions.
transf.a1823Mrs. Radcliffe Moonlight in Gaston de Blondeville (1826) IV. 251 Who, silent, watch the bark the coast resign, The Pharos lessen, and the mountains fade.
c. a task, charge, etc.
1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 211 All sic crymes in luffis caus I resing To the confessioun of morall Ihon Gower. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 688 Suspicion sleeps At wisdoms Gate, and to simplicitie Resigns her charge. 1715Pope Iliad iv. 378 To you the glorious conflict I resign. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 551 Then why resign into a stranger's hand A task as much within your own command?
d. one's life, being, soul, etc.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 191 What should I d'on this Robe..to day, To morrow yeeld vp rule, resigne my life? 1646Milton Sonn. xiv. 3 Meekly thou didst resign this earthy load Of Death, call'd Life. 1665Dryden Ind. Emp. v. ii, If Blood you seek, I will my own resign. 1711Steele Spect. No. 133 ⁋5 Noble and Heroick Minds that have resigned this Being. 1796Morse Amer. Geogr. I. 317 note, He resigned a life, which had been singularly devoted to the welfare of his country. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. i. 63 That done, My soul, which is a scourge, will I resign Into the hands of him who wielded it.
e. something aimed at or desired.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. vii. 33 The praise of artful Numbers I resign. 1736Gray Statius i. 23 The palm despair'd resign. 1849M. Arnold Resignation Poems (1906) 76 Be passionate hopes not ill resign'd For quiet, and a fearless mind.
2. a. To give up, make over, abandon, consign to a person, thing, or condition.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 682 And therfor to the feend I the resigne, Let him endyten of thi treccherie. 1589[? Nashe] Almond for Parrat 11 Whether he would haue the care of the commonwealth..resigned to the retorting of T.C. his unreuerent railings. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 301 So Law appears..but giv'n With purpose to resign them in full time Up to a better Cov'nant. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 124 The light Stubble, to the Flames resign'd, Is driv'n along, and crackles in the Wind. 1704Swift T. Tub vi, His two Brethren..for ever discarded from his House, and resigned to the wide World. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. viii, Mr. Burchell..resigned her up to the chaplain. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest viii, Had I resigned you to his will I should have remained secure. c1860Bryant A Sick-bed xi, Then to the sleep I crave Resign me.
b. To yield up (oneself, etc.) with confidence to another for care or guidance.
c1366Chaucer A.B.C. 80 Myn hele in-to thyn hand al I resigne. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 1886 With louyng chere..Hir hert to him she did resigne. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xlii. 113 Forsake þiself, resigne up þiself, & þou shalt fruisshe gret pes. 1642Rogers Naaman 130 [She] will not..resigne up her selfe to God. 1667Milton P.L. x. 148 Was shee made thy guide,..that to her Thou did'st resigne thy Manhood? 1751Doddridge in Paraph. Ch. Scot. xliv. 5 To thee, as to our cov'nant God, We'll our whole selves resign. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 79 He..vows to resign himself to her direction.
c. To make surrender of (one's will, reason, etc.), in reliance upon another.
1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 29 Amongst our hands, he must his witts resing, A holy trance to highest heauen him bring. 1647Cowley Mistr., The Soul iii, If my Will do not resign All her Liberty to thine. c1698Locke Some Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding (1881) 61 Those who always resign their judgment to the last man they heard or read. 1781Cowper Retirem. 130 To..Resign our own and seek our Maker's will.
d. To give (oneself, one's mind, etc.) up to some emotion, condition, or state. Also const. with inf.
1718Pope Iliad xiii. 590 æneas..for a space resign'd To tender pity all his manly mind. 1738tr. Guazzo's Art Convers. 16 They did not so absolutely resign themselves up to a solitary Life, as to be entirely regardless of their neighbours. 1791Cowper Retired Cat 61, I will resign myself to rest. 1815Shelley Alastor 628 Yet a little, ere it fled, Did he resign his high and holy soul To images of the majestic past. 1898G. B. Shaw You never can Tell ii. 265 She smiles in spite of herself, and resigns herself to indulge him a little. a1953E. O'Neill More Stately Mansions (1964) i. ii. 39 Resign myself to be a grandmother!
†3. To give over, desist or refrain from. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 25 Thei dredyn shame, and vices thei resigne. c1440Partonope 3413* Of this and more..Myne autor seyth which shall not fyne. Hem to reherse I will resyne. 1492Ryman Poems xlix. i. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXIX. 215 Now is tyme for to inclyne To vertue, and synne to resyne. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xi. 5 Whom when the Gyaunt saw, he soone resinde His former suit, and from them fled apace.
†4. To cause (a person) to give up his place.
1674Essex Papers (Camden) I. 286 That party made their braggs that they would resigne Arlington at his Returne.
II. intr.
5. a. To give up an office or position; to retire; † to abdicate.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 8289 At laste to reule it him thoght herd. He resygned and went away. a1470Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Cit. Lond. (Camden) 76 And that yere..he resynyd, and Edwarde his sone..was crounyd. 1530Palsgr. 688/1 He is contented to resyne, but he demaundeth to great a pencyon. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iv. i. 190, I thought you had been willing to resigne.
1744H. Walpole Lett. II. 3 Lord Granville has resigned: that is the term. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 37 Where a clerk..entered into a general bond to the patron, to resign whenever the patron should require him. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 7 If my Lord bishop wants to resign. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 339/2 Non-commissioned officers..can resign when they find themselves unequal to perform the duties of their rank.
b. orig. U.S. Const. from.
1885J. Hawthorne Love or a Name 95 Is it true..that you have resigned from the Compensation Fund Commission? 1905‘M. E. Wilkins’ Debtor 171 You would say at once they ought to be forced to resign from their offices. 1926G. B. Shaw Translations & Tomfooleries 235 My brothers said I ought to resign from my clubs. 1959Chambers's Encycl. II. 68/1 In 1922 he resigned from office and was raised to the peerage as earl of Balfour. 1973Howat & Taylor Dict. World Hist. 1619/2 In April 1951 he resigned from the government..in protest against an increase in social service charges. 1980Times 20 Aug. 1/2 Mr A. J. P. Taylor resigned from the British Academy over what he described as a witch hunt by some members to remove Professor Anthony Blunt.
6. To submit, to yield, to a person or thing. Now rare.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xlii. 113 Somme resigneþ, but with som excepcion, for þei trust not fully to god. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 59 Vile earth to earth resigne, end motion here. 1701Collier M. Aurel. (1726) 19 That we should..resign to his wisdom, and adore his goodness. 1742Richardson Pamela IV. 173, I will hope still the best, and resign to God's Will and his. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 288 Sophia and Emily Selwyn endeavoured to resign to their destiny. 1827Examiner 325/2 The sun is resigning to the softer sway of the moon. 1861F. Nightingale Nursing ii. (ed. 2) 23 People..take every disease as a matter of course, to be ‘resigned to’.
7. To make surrender or relinquishment.
1738Wesley Ps. cxxxix. ii, Thy Voice would break the Bars of Death, And make the Grave resign. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus viii. 9 Now she resigns thee; child, do thou resign no less. a1964in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 75 ‘Die or resign, Jack Donahoe!’ they [sc. police] shouted in their joy.
▪ III. † reˈsign, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. resignāre to unseal: see prec.]
trans. To disclose, reveal.
1595B. Barnes Div. Cent. Sonn. xxi, Whome with thine angels manna thou didst feede,..When Moyses first thy statutes did resigne. |