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resistent, a. and n.|rɪˈzɪstənt|
[ad. L. resistent-em, pres. pple. of resistĕre to resist.]
A. adj. = resistant a.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's De Augm. Sci. iii. iv. 149 A Pestilentiall aire seizeth on bodies more open and lesse resistent. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxvii. 377 The more resistent ones [sc. laminæ] stand out in ridges after the softer parts between them have been eaten away. 1887W. G. Palgrave Ulysses 255 Native Indian tribes..resistent to the last..against every Argentine attempt at civilising..them.
†B. n. = resistant n. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 15 The foresaid resistance was not schisme in the Resisten[t]s. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xiii. §5 The resistance..weakned by the thinnenesse of the resistent there. |