单词 | recontinue |
释义 | recontinuev. transitive. To go on again with (a discontinued action, occupation, state, etc.); to resume. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continue (an action) [verb (transitive)] > again recontinuec1500 c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1112 (MED) Rescu yondyr knyghtes & recontynu fyght. 1536 T. Elyot Let. in Bk. named Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. cxxxi As for my first sute, I shall at your lordshippes better laysour recontynue it, trusting allso in your lordshippes favor therein. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 470 He was..annointed king, & so recontinued the right of the house of Yorke. 1616 Proclam. Jas. I 26 Mar. It had bene enough for his Maiestie to haue signified his pleasure for recontinuing the said order. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 127 He recontinued the liberty of publique consultations. 1705 J. Davis tr. S. Lorenzini Curious & Accurate Observ. Dissections of Cramp-fish 63 I shall renew or recontinue the Thread of my Discourse. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 87 My hot-mettled spark sympathysing with me..recontinu'd the sweet battery with undying vigour. 1802 M. Charlton tr. A. La Fontaine Reprobate I. 106 He had resumed the care of his flowers, and my father had recontinued his journal. 1853 Littell's Living Age 23 July 206 Of course there is a contrivance by which the progress of the labor of every individual pestle can be stopped, or recontinued at pleasure. 1911 Grand Rapids (Wisconsin) Tribune 13 Sept. 18/3 Walter Wessenborg will leave next Monday for Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he will recontinue his studies at the Bethlehem Moravian college. 1939 Geografiska Annaler 21 17 The water will tend to spread out horizontally..perhaps to recontinue its downward flow through some discontinuation in the ice band. 2002 Japan Times (Nexis) 8 June The Thursday flight will be canceled, JAL said, adding it will decide later whether to recontinue flights. Derivatives reconˈtinued adj. ΚΠ 1587 T. Hughes Misfortunes Arthur iii. i Where men with reconciled mindes Renew their loue with recontinued grace. a1643 J. Spelman Life Ælfred Great (1709) iii. 223 Lineally deriving from King Ælfred's Heirs the long recontinued Right of Inheritance. 1965 Virginia Law Rev. 51 1270 The recontinued upward movement was possible because America seems to have so a far unsatiated appetite for government by judiciary. 1983 Engin. News-Record (Nexis) 24 Mar. 114 The materials selected are governing cost factors because..their recontinued importance is assured since none is likely to go out of use. reconˈtinuing n. rare ΚΠ 1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 24 (title) An Acte for re~contynuyng of certayn liberties. 1848 A. J. Stephens Pract. Treat. Laws Clergy II. 937 (margin) What is considered a recontinuing of the incumbency. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1500 |
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