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resile, v.|rɪˈzaɪl|
[ad. obs. F. resiler, resilir, or L. resilīre to jump back, recoil, f. re- re- 2 a + salīre to jump, leap: see salient a.]
In senses 1–3 chiefly in Scottish use.
1. intr. To draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.
1529State P. Hen. VIII, I. 343 If the Quene wold her⁓after resile and goo back from that, she semeth nowe to be contented with. 1671[R. MacWard] True Nonconf. 231 Dare you..say, that the King and Parliament had power, either to resile, or to loose others, from the Bonds, which they themselves had thus established? a1676Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 46 The next day he resiled from the Writ he had sign'd. 1830Scott Demonol. ix. 293 Much pains was taken on her that she might resile from that confession. 1884Law Times Rep. L. 643/1 Neither the company nor the landowner can, without the consent of the other, resile from the..contract.
b. Without const.: To retract, draw back.
1662J. Ellis Retract. 18, I was so weak as to resile and recal what I had said. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 67 The party resiling is liable in damages to the other. 1814Scott Wav. lxvi, A ‘sma’ minute, to prevent parties frae resiling'. 1845Campbell Chancellors III. 565 But he thought it was too late to resile.
2. To draw back from a course of action, attitude of mind, etc.
1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Epist. B, Let them resile from their violent proceedings. 1676Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 465 It has been said that I have resiled from my wonted zeal for Presbyterial Government. 1813Examiner 22 Feb. 126/2 The noble family had too much real love of their country to resile from her service.
3. To shrink, recoil, retreat, from something with aversion or non-acceptance.
1697Cleland Poems 79 (Jam.), Read Duram and Calvin well; If from their reasons you resile, I'le count you sots. 1776Hume My own Life in Ess. I. 6 The more I resiled from their excessive civilities, the more I was loaded with them. 1813Collinson Key iii. 60 Other persons resiling with abhorrence from unbelief. 1825C. Butler Bk. R.C. Ch. 131 The pope resiled from the salutation. 1873J. Hall Questions of Day viii. 101 So far from resiling from the prophecies,..we regard the volume of evidence furnished by them as ever accumulating with the lapse of time. 1892Bruce Apologetics ii. iii. 201 The modern mind has resiled from the pessimistic views of ethnic religions.
4. Of material things: To recoil or rebound after contact. Also const. from.
1708J. Keill Anim. Secretion 43 The Particles which hit against one another do not resile, but unite together. 1738Bayne Gout 102 An unequal velocity of particles will hinder and disturb their attractions, and by resiling from one another, cause an intestine motion which prevents their union. 1805Edin. Rev. VII. 81 The one by impinging on the other must be made to resile, according to the common laws of motion.
b. Of elastic bodies: To return to their original position after being stretched or compressed.
1709Phil. Trans. XXVII. 81 There needs no more for stretching forth the Proboscis thus contracted, but the Fibres to resile to their former Position. 1853Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 362 The cake of caoutchouc, after being so condensed, resiles much more considerably than after the compressing action of the screw. 1898Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 374 The drainage tube is allowed slowly to resile towards the fixed end.
5. a. To turn back from a point reached.
1887Ferguson Ogham Inscriptions 97 Reading up to this digit..and resiling thence.
b. To return to one's original position.
1889Ch. Q. Rev. XXVII. 351 It is impossible to specify any body of men of which so large a percentage has resiled as that of those who have become Roman Catholics during the period of which we are now speaking.
Hence reˈsiling vbl. n. Also reˈsilement.
1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 102 The resileing of one partie contractor is not sufficient to void the contract. 1724Wodrow's Corr. (1843) III. 146 A resiling from the declaration made by the Non-subscribers in the Synod. 1822C. Butler Reminisc. (ed. 3) 181 Mr. Pitt's resiling from the coalition..will be mentioned in the pages of history with universal commendation. 1884Ogilvie s.v. Back adv. 7, In withdrawal or resilement from an undertaking. |