reassumev.

1472 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 224 (MED) Andreas de Sancta Cruce shall reassume our commyssion; and iff the Scottes reply, Joachinus shall reply agayn thair replicacionez.

1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 135 The common-weale not long after reassumed her pristine pollicie.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xxxii. 244 A thing prohibited..in the councell of Laodicea, but re-assumed, and long time frequented in the Church.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 144 They re-assumed the work upon warrant of Cyrus his former Edict.

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 330 Those Kind of Spectacles were already over, and not to be reassum'd the same Day.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 12 Our company reassumed their march; and..arrived in good time.

1791 C. Smith Celestina I. 220 To quiet the perturbation of her mind by re-assuming her usual occupations.

1824 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 508 Mary Stuart having brought some superb diamonds into France, the ladies of the Court re-assumed the wear of them.

1854 C. C. Felton Addr. Assoc. Alumni Harvard College 8 It becomes us..to draw instruction and encouragement from their examples, and then, sobered by the thoughts of death, to reassume the tasks of duty.

1926 Times 9 Mar. 16/2 However unwilling M. Briand may be to reassume the thankless task.

2005 M. Dunford & L. Greco After Three Italies (2006) vi. 165 Some companies, for example, re-established relations with redundant former employees, who reassumed their jobs, not as employees, but as self-employed craft entrepreneurs.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 818 After the Iewes had made answere..the Lord presently reassumeth that speech.

1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 180 They might afterwards re-assume their delightful conversation.

1682 G. Vernon Life P. Heylyn 183 He again re-assumes the Argument and confutes all that Bellarmin and others produce for it.

1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 32 Then they re-assumed and said.

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. i. 11 We will re-assume the Subject of the Ptolomaic System.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 110 I own it is necessary, re-assumed the master of the hotel, that [etc.].

1796 C. Smith Marchmont I. 60 ‘Ah, my dear love!’ reassumed this admirable woman, after a short pause.

1635 J. Hawkins tr. P. Aretino Paraphr. Seaven Psalmes v. 160 In enlightning me,..thou dost througlie purifie my spirit, dost giue light & force to such a tenor, to such being, to such an height, that I returne, reassume to speake in thy name, in thy person.

1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xii. 82 I re-assume to personate a wounded conscience.

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 40 All that pertenis to the humanite Jhesus reassumyt.

1599 E. Ford Parismenos xxix. sig. Cc3^v Whereas before by reason of his sadnesse, the whole campe had laide aside mirth, now hearing of his safetie, they reassumed new comfort.

1613 R. Dallington Aphorismes Ciuill & Militarie i. lii. 69 The Pisanes..take armes; pull downe the ensignes of Florence in euery place of the citie, and re-assume their libertie.

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. vii. x. sig. P2^v In hope that gracious time will come at length, To cheare my long dismay: My spirits reassume your former strength.

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion xii. 23 Little and little he began to reassume his Spirits.

1671 A. Behn Forc'd Marriage i. iii. 16 Go—reassume your Beauty: dry your eyes.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 432. ⁋4 These little Republicks reassume their National Hatred to each other.

1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life IV. 37 Upon rejoining the company, he reassumed his good humour and politeness.

1876 J. J. Elmendorf Outl. Lect. Hist. Philos. ii. 12 How can reality be predicated of that which is subject to change, and reassumes no more its original character?

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 482 The quality of reassuming turgescence on excitement.

1961 J. D. Clarkson Hist. Russia xxxv. 697 There were also strong internal reasons for reassuming a deliberately hostile attitude to the outside world.

1998 Audubon Mar.–Apr. 77/1 Emerging from the marsh's outflow it reassumes its character, keeping to a single channel.

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 40 He reassumyt the haly and precius blud þat he sched for ws.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 56 All the rest did wash at the same fountaine, casting out water of it selfe, and reassuming the same in a wonderfull manner by two small pypes on eyther sides.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iv. 193 All the gory Mutherers, blacke Atheists, sacrilegious Church-robbers, and incestuous Rauishers, that haue euer disgorged their poyson on earth, to re-assume it in Hell.

a1705 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (1713) ii. ii. 74 Carried off by the Rivers, and reassumed into the Sea.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 22 The Marrow..is reassumed into the Mass of Blood.

1883 Catholic Dict. (1897) 744/1 St. Thomas says..that all the particles of blood which Christ shed in his Passion were reassumed by him in His resurrection.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr ii. 13 The seuerity which the Church vsed towards them,..and her bitternesse and auersenes, from re-assuming them, euen after long penances, into her bosome.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 122 [He] reseised and reassumed the English in partnership with the Norman in their ancient right of government.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 225 Into his blissful bosom reassum'd In glory as of old. View more context for this quotation

1717 R. Blakeway Cure Relig. Melancholy 106 To re-assume him [sc. a traitor] into his Care and Service, to receive him yet higher into his Bosom, into the Number of his Friends.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xv Pandulph toke y^e Crowne of the Kynge..y^e Kynge reassumyd the Crowne of Pandulph.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxi. 70 Beware him, as an Enemie, apt to re-assume his Armes.

1679 New Advice in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 548 Painter, once more thy Pencil reassume.

a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) V. 44 I shall break off here, and shall re-assume my pen in the evening.

1848 C. C. Clifford tr. Aristophanes Frogs 18 No nonsense, Xanthias; reassume your pack.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 658 He reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room,..and reentered.

1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iii. lxxxix. 85 His successour..did reuocate And reassume his liberalities.

1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince vii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 208 Lest the next Pope should..reassume all that Alexander had given him.

1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvi. 476 She waves her golden wand, and reassumes From ev'ry feature every grace that blooms.

1792 C. Smith Desmond I. 129 What then should prevent a nation from re-assuming grants?

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii. 84 His lands..lay waste till they were reassumed by the emperor as a lapsed fief.

1992 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 15/7 Taunton under water makes a strangely encouraging sight... Let laughing Neptune reassume the land.

a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1647 253/1 His Excellency would be pleased to represent to the Parliament the condition of the Army, and that they would be pleased to reassume the Votes lately passed.

1685 S. Sewall Diary 22 Oct. (1973) I. 81 Deputies reassume their Vote as to the Treasurer and consent with the Magistrates.

1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 98 The Lieut. Governour..told them except they did Re-assume that Vote..they should sit there till the next Spring.

1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne sig. F.iii Our Sauyour Jesus Chrys..reassumed and toke agayne hys blessed naturall Body, the third day after hys sayd deathe.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον i. 31 By the bankes of Nilus re~assumed her humane shape.

1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 283 At the great Day of Accompts the Souls shall re-assume their former Bodies.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xii. 170 Then the birds, again transfigured, Reassumed the shape of mortals.

1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy §157 The heat thus spent reassumes the form of molecular motion.

1889 Scribner's Mag. July 48/2 The summer-cloud that melts before one's eyes, never to reassume its former shape.

1931 Sci. News Let. 3 Jan. 6/1 After some weeks of growth of the culture, the germ reassumes its common form.

2007 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 4 Apr. E3 It is almost impossible to dent with a forming hammer. And it has a memory that makes it want to reassume the shape you are trying to make it give up.

1624 T. Heywood tr. Ovid Elegy 'Ad Puellam' in Γυναικεῖον v. 265 I am not iealous now, my feare is vanisht.., My fire is cool'd, Reason re'assumes his place.

1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 45 Mr. Solicitor..reassumed the Chair again.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. i. ii. 84 But now, my Reason re-assumes its Throne.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo iii, in Wks. (1721) III. 84 The scatter'd Atoms of each humane Mold..Shall..re-assume in Men their pristine site.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde IV. vii. 145 Again reassuming his place at the breakfast table.

1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 11 Aug. (1964) II. 332 We could easily reassume our station with the spring at Pugnano or the baths.

1878 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. IV. 1683/2 Observation and experimental investigation gradually reassumed their proper places.

1908 H. Driesch Sci. & Philos. Organism I. i. 158 Branches of plants always try to reassume their proper angle with regard to their orientation on the main axis, if this orientation has been disturbed.

1958 Times 30 July 8/3 Nothing has been done to discourage Iraq from reassuming her place as a member of the Baghdad pact.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 59 Richard reassumed his cueing position, chin at table height.

1635 J. Hawkins tr. P. Aretino Paraphr. Seaven Psalmes vi. 206 I was masked vnder the disguise, the weed of sinne, which had so estranged me, that I vnderwent imminent danger, to haue neuer reassumed my selfe, neuer reacknowledged my selfe.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 149 Then Reassume yourself, forbear to Doat.

1722 R. Steele Conscious Lovers iv. 53 But I am so mortify'd at this Conduct of mine..I know not how to re-assume my self, and be in Spirit enough, for such an Adventure as this.

1775 H. Jones & P. Hiffernan Heroine of Cave iv. ii. 51 Constantia come, let's take the last farewel Of our sad dwelling, reassume ourselves, And visit light with chearful hearts once more.

1811 Henry & Isabella I. 168 She instantly combated what she considered an ungenerous suspicion, and reassumed herself.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlii. 144 The vrgent necessitie of publike affaires requiring his presence, and that he should returne to re-assume his charge againe [Fr. requerant qu'il reuinst en prendre la charge], he answered those that solicited him vnto it.

1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie i. 24 Hee should re-assume the charge [which] had beene taken from him.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. i. 27 Elidure now in his own behalf re-assumes the Government.

1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 55 Soon after this was the Revolution, and the other Government Re-assumed.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 162 After Henry the VIIIth had re-assum'd the Supremacy.

1774 tr. Helvetius Child of Nature II. 245 At last, reason reassumed her empire.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 99 The tyranny of heaven none may retain, Or reassume, or hold.

1885 M. Arnold in Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Nov. 3/2 To reassume an office at sixty-two is not the same thing as to assume it at thirty-two.

1912 J. H. Harper House of Harper xviii. 224 On the completion of the history Alden reassumed his former duties.

1969 J. M. Gullick Malaysia ii. 106 There was also a British Adviser (no longer a ‘Resident’)... The Advisers did not reassume the executive powers of the pre-war British Residents of the F.M.S.

1994 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 8/2 The former Heritage Secretary had agreed to reassume that role for a day to assess the success of his own 1990 Broadcasting Act.

1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable ii. 108 As our Souereigne King of Great Britaine,..with better title, may most rightfully challenge to be the greatest and sincerest Defender of the faith of Christ thorow the world; euen so was it a title in those dayes when it was reassumed and acknowledged of his Ancestor of proper attribution.

1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 101 The Lords (who had now reassumed their Native right by taking their places in the higher House).

1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 95 Night Has reassum'd her ancient right.

1813 J. C. Eustace Tour through Italy II. Diss. 586 Whether Italy be destined to re-assume her honours.

1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia vi. 114 They re-assumed the title of Dahi.

1879 J. M. Ross Globe Encycl. VI. 105/2 William of Orange reassumed (1572) the title of S[tadholder] of Holland and Zealand.

1992 When Saturday Comes Apr. 24/2 Both clubs were dissolved only to quickly reappear as Vitoshé (Levski) and Stredets (CSKA), names under which they played for a year before being allowed to reassume their previous monikers.