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resumption|rɪˈzʌm(p)ʃən|
[a. F. résumption or ad. L. resumptiōn-em, n. of action f. resūmĕre to resume. So Sp. resuncion, It. risunzione.]
1. Law. The action, on the part of the Crown or other authority, of reassuming possession of lands, rights, etc., which have been bestowed on others; a case or instance of this.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 167/1 As sone as that office to your hand..by deth, cession, amocion, resumpcion,..or elles in eny othir maner it be, next then to come. 1489Ibid. VI. 429/1 By force of an Acte of Parliament called a Resumption. 1503Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 10 The said Act of Resumption, or any Articles therein contained. 1565in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 57 If after Resumption the Queen shall decline the working, then William Humfrey..to have the preference of Farming it [etc.]. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 248 By the Statut of Resumption vnder Hen. VIII. most of the Royalties of our English Counties Palatin were diminisht, and taken into the Croun. 1663Pepys Diary 29 Mar., The late discourse in the House of Commons, concerning resumption of Crowne lands. 1723Pres. St. Russia I. 3 They entertained Hopes of being restored to their former Estates which they lost by the late Resumption during the Swedish Administration. 1792A. Young Trav. France 46 This great work stands still at present through a fear of resumptions. 1831Mackintosh Sp. Ho. Comm. 4 July, Wks. 1846 III. 552 To represent our resumption of a right of suffrage as a precedent for their seizure of lands and possessions. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. VI. 78 They knew that the benefit of the resumption was not to be for them.
b. In general use, the action of taking back or recovering something.
1702Eng. Theophrastus 195 Resumptions are as ordinary with this lady [fortune] as with a House of Commons. 1836Emerson Nature, Prospects Wks. (Bohn) II. 171 This is such a resumption of power, as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxix. X. 356 Now that the power of the latter was broken, the Eleians aimed at resumption of their lost supremacy. 1885G. Macdonald Diary Old Soul 26 Oct., So, Lord, if Thou tak'st from me all the rest, Thyself with each resumption drawing nigher.
2. The action of resuming, taking up, or commencing again.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 229 The resumption of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 258/1 Reminiscence is not a Resumption or Assumption of Memory, but differs specifically from both these. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 432 This word, ‘I believe’, is taken here only by way of resumption or repetition. 1821Byron Two Foscari i. i, The hour's past—fix'd yesterday For the resumption of his trial. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. x. 239 The first instance of resumption, after long disuse, of impeachments of ministers on account of advice to the Crown. 1884Weekly Notes 9 Feb. 28/2 Both funds must be treated as belonging to the wife for her separate use upon the resumption of cohabitation.
b. Banking. A return to specie payments. Also attrib.
1866Crump Banking ix. 182 We will take the price [of bank stock] every five years down to the final resumption in 1821. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 156 Despite the stoppage of the resumption policy preparing by Secretary McCullough. 1880E. Kirke Life Garfield 30 Resumption came at last,..when the Government, for the first time in seventeen years, made its payments in coin.
c. (See quot.)
1856J. Williams Gram. Edeyrn §1784 Resumption [in Welsh prosody] is the practice of beginning every verse with the same letter, which is sustained throughout.
3. a. Recapitulation, résumé. rare.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., Resumption, in the schools, a summary repetition, or running over, of an argument, or of the substance thereof, in order to refute it. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xliii. (1859) II. 444 A theory, in fact, which is the resumption and complement of them all.
b. (See quot.) rare—0.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., Resumption is..used by logicians for the reduction of some figurative, or quaint proposition, to a more intelligible and significant one. |