residentadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ˈrɛzᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛz(ə)d(ə)nt/

Forms: Middle English resydentt, Middle English–1500s recydent, Middle English–1500s residente, Middle English–1500s resydent, Middle English– resident, 1500s reasident, 1500s resedent, 1500s resedente, 1500s residence (plural), 1500s resydente, 1600s recident.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French resident; Latin resident-, residens.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French resident (French résident ) (adjective) residing, dwelling (1280 in Old French), staying in a place as an envoy or diplomat (1501), (noun) person who dwells in a particular place, inhabitant (c1268) and its etymon post-classical Latin resident-, residens (adjective) residing (12th cent. or earlier), (noun) person who resides permanently in a place (10th cent.), resident tenant (c1115, c1450 in British sources), residentiary canon (1586 in a British source), use as adjective and noun of classical Latin resident- , residēns , present participle of residēre reside v.¹ Compare Catalan resident (13th cent.), Spanish residente (13th cent., earliest with reference to clerics), Portuguese residente (1341), Italian residente (a1347). With use as noun compare earlier non-resident n. Compare later reside v.¹With sense A. 2 compare earlier residence n.¹ 1. With sense A. 5 compare slightly earlier reside v.¹ 6. With sense B. 1b compare earlier residenter n., residentiary n., and residencer n. In sense B. 2b after Dutch resident governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies (1806; earlier in senses ‘member of staff at a trading post in the Dutch East Indies’ (1645), ‘leader of such a trading post, with diplomatic responsibilities’ (1678; compare sense B. 2a)). In sense B. 4 after Russian rezident rezident n.

A. adj.

1. That resides, dwells, or has an abode in a place; living somewhere on a long-term basis.

a. In predicative use. Frequently figurative.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective]

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xii. 2 These that dwelten, or wern resident [L. resederant]..suffriden not hem for to do in silence and quyet.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 35 (MED) For surenes to reule the cuntre, They promotyd..ij lordys to be resydent in the chef cyte.

c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxv Say to the men that there bene resident, How long think thay to stand in my disdeyne.

1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 14 He or she..shall nat be taken out of the saintuary, wherein the same person shall then be resydent.

a1592 R. Greene Orpharion (1599) 3 Tell mee whether Venus is resident about this mount of Erecinus, or no.

1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Consol. Helvia in tr. Seneca Wks. 737 Hee hath alwaies endeuoured that his greatest goods should consist in himselfe, and the complement of his contents should bee resident in his heart.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 In no other part, are those Birds resident.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 40 The Christian Princes that were then resident at the Port.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 15 He is not said to be resident in a Place, who comes thither with a Purpose of retiring immediately from thence.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 594 Authority herself not seldom sleeps, Through resident, and witness of the wrong.

1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 45 The defendant was resident at Bennington, but not an inhabitant.

1835 T. Carlyle Let. 4 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1981) VIII. 137 I am neither Pagan nor Turk, nor circumcised Jew, but an unfortunate Christian individual resident at Chelsea.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 5 The inhabitants of each [country], whether resident in France..or Flanders.

1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare v. 179 Ophelia..is always more resident in his soul than maintained within a palace.

1928 W. C. MacLeod Amer. Indian Frontier xxxv. 522 The prophet Smohalla was a member of a small band of about two hundred Indians,..resident on the Rocky Mountain plateau.

1991 Artist Nov. 45/1 This competition is open to all artists resident in the British Isles.

b. attributive.

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1727 H. Boulter Let. 13 Feb. (1769) I. 213 In many places here one fourth or fifth of the resident justices are clergymen, for want of resident gentlemen.

1790 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks IV. xiv. 102 She became kitchen-maid at a fashionable brothel; and,..when all the resident ladies of the house happened to be engaged,..she was occasionally dressed and served up.

1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1343/2 He considered resident country gentlemen the greatest blessing of this country.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 259 Its resident population does not much exceed two hundred and twenty thousand, comprised within the..limits of the city.

1853 G. B. Earp N.Z. 238 In the case of squatting, it is advisable to pay a small..tribute to the resident natives.

1934 G. Ross Tips on Tables 41 Home Dining Room... This plain and thoroughly native little restaurant has always been the gathering place of visiting and resident Hungarians.

1988 Reviews Infectious Dis. 10 457/2 Since 1974 all resident village children had received one dose of Schwarz-strain attenuated measles vaccine.

2001 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 14 Jan. 26 No sooner had Tony Blair moved into Downing Street than the resident veteran mouser mysteriously vanished into ‘retirement’.

c. Of a bird or other animal: remaining in a locality or region throughout the year; not migratory.A bird may be resident as a species, but the same individuals are not necessarily present throughout the year (cf. quot. 1899).

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory > not migratory

resident1790

sedentary1851

1790 G. Riley Beauties of Creation I. 134 Some Birds, which migrate in particular climates, are constantly resident in others.

1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals p. xiii The Resident Animals are such as can accommodate themselves to all the changes of this variable climate.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 427 The same sagacity that has taught them the habits of the resident animals.

1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 17 There are many Birds which, though resident as species, are migratory as individuals.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 589 We mean by ‘partial migrants’ those birds which are never without their representatives in the country under consideration, yet some always migrate while other remain resident.

1993 Country Side July–Aug. 5/1 Twenty six species of butterfly and over fifteen species of resident day-flying macro moths have been recorded.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 227 The three main seal species hunted were the common seal (alias harbor seal), which is resident all year round in Greenland..; and the migratory harp seal and hooded seal.

a. Staying regularly in or at a place for the performance of official duties or in compliance with regulations; (also) †continually present in an assembly (obsolete). Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. residence n.¹ 1.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > to fulfil requirements

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the world > space > place > presence > [adjective] > continually present in an assembly

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1426 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1426 §31. m. 7 Also prebendaries of chirches cathedralx and collegiall, for þe tyme þat þai been resident at þe said chirches cathedrall or collegiall.

1449 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 66 (MED) Besechith..your said suppliaunt to be exempt & discharged from the said abbey and to goo and be resident in an oþer place of lyke ordre.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 137 Wagis ar nocht ordanyt tobe gevin to personis nocht resident.

1536 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 28 All persones and vicares and other beneficed men and pensionaries within this deanry not being resident upon their benefices.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 88 A nother yl custume that prestys be not resydent apon theyr benefycys.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxc That euery man be resident in his own church, and that eche man shuld haue one benefice.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 131 I am come to Kilkenny..without any one Commander or Captaine of the Army, hauing left them all with commandement to be resident on their charge.

1642 Earle of Pembrooke et al. New Propositions sig. A2^v These and the like Assurances of danger, caused the Lords and Commons now resident in Parliament to publish severall Propositions in generall, to all the Kingdome.

1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son: 2nd Pt. §23. 65 Mr. Hampden, Mr. Pim, &c. were resident in all Parliaments, their age gave them opportunity to Assist in.

1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 8 If any Customer, Comptroller, or Searcher be not resident upon his Place and Office.

1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. iii. i. 141 All publick Professors and Lecturers..are accounted Regents ad placitum; so are all Resident Doctors, of what Faculty soever.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 148 [Warton] There was only one other Fellow of Pembroke now resident.

1804 R. Heber Let. 23 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. i. 38 The Michaelmas term I shall, I think, be resident.

1887 W. J. Loftie London vii. 154 The ‘stagiaries’ or resident canons conducted the services of the church.

1917 Nature 25 Jan. 422/1 The number of undergraduates resident during the term is not expected to exceed four hundred.

1991 J. Caldwell Oxf. Hist. Eng. Music I. iv. 176 The canons, whether resident or not, had long ceased to fulfil their obligation of singing the daily Office.

b. In attributive use: having quarters on the premises of one's work; attached to and working regularly for a particular institution. Also: working in a diplomatic or intelligence capacity from a foreign headquarters (cf. minister resident n. at minister n. 6c).

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1698 J. Groeneveldt Late Censors Deservedly Censured 8 The Collegiate Physicians, and all other Practitioners, Apothecaries, Naval and Resident Surgeons, and Druggists are under your immediate Inspection, pray cast them up and tell us how many Thousand they are.

1725 Acct. Found. Royal Hosp. 62 (list of salaries) Resident Surgeon.

1812 Laws & Ordinances City of New-York 202 It shall be the duty of the said resident physician and health commissioner, to meet daily at the health office, from the thirty-first day of May to the first day of October.

1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 89 A rectory of two medieties, served by two resident rectors.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xx. 82 Having off-loaded my waggon, I handed it over to Mr. Arnott, the resident blacksmith, to undergo repairs.

1874 Chambers's Encycl. V. 544/1 Resident political agents are appointed by the British government at the courts of the native princes.

1934 Amer. Rev. Tuberculosis 30 188 The maintenance by each sizeable sanatorium of a resident thoracic surgeon whose special training in phthisiotherapy can be relied upon to aid in careful selection of suitable cases for surgical collapse.

1959 Times 8 June 13/1 Resident nannies and baby-minders.

1963 J. Joesten They call it Intelligence ii. viii. 73 Abel..held the post of ‘resident officer’... His job was to recruit and organize local spies.

1997 Escape Mar.–Apr. 13/2 Café Surf wheeled out their resident nerd techie..and his fingertips flew across the keyboard for some moments before he announced to a surly audience that the whole thing was buggered.

c. Designating a professional artist or writer employed, usually for a specified period, to work among and interact with the members of a college or other institution. Cf. residence n.¹ Phrases 5b.

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1879 Punch 27 Dec. 292/2 Of course a resident Poet and Librettist will be required on the premises. Early applications necessary.

1925 Atlanta Constit. 31 Jan. 16 DuBose Heyward..will be resident poet and member of the department of English at Agnes Scott college.

1962 Art Jrnl. 21 175/3 After a period of teaching at Syracuse University he came to the University of Notre Dame, where for several years he had been ‘resident sculptor’ and distinguished guest.

1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 2 Sept. 93/1 In addition to the free space and technical support, plus a small stipend, resident artists have complete artistic control and freedom to work on personal pet projects.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Dec. 29 After the Liverpool Playhouse put on her second play,..she became its resident writer.

d. Designating a musician or ensemble engaged on a regular or long-term basis at a club or other venue. Cf. residency n. 1c.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [adjective] > resident

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1928 Observer 13 May 14/2 (advt.) Resident Band, bi-weekly dances.

1958 S. Traill in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 75 Every cheap speakeasy had its resident piano player.

1977 Belfast Tel. 19 Jan. 3/9 The resident band..will be George Chambers and the Apex.

1995 Face Aug. 155/1 As the resident DJ at London's Speed, Bukem has brought drum and bass to the heart of the West End.

2008 R. D. Cohen Hist. Folk Music Festivals in U.S. ii. 50 His Chicago club,..where she met Bob Gibson, the resident performer.

e. In humorous or ironic use, of a person with a certain (frequently undesirable or inescapable) characteristic.

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1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses vii. 128 None other than our resident nihilist, our old friend, Riley.

1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 May 22/2 ‘I suppose I'll be the resident bitch,’ she said without batting an eyelid.

2001 Advocate 3 July 54/2 As the film's resident baddie, McFadden's just way over the top.

3. Of a quality, power, etc.: abiding, present, inherent, established.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective]

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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective]

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1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxix. [cxxv.] 367 It wyll be very harde to make peace in that place, where as great hatered and warre is resydent.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 44 Let this thought be alwayes resident in your mind.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xix. 225 One ignorant of him would not haue thought any effeminat sparke resident in him.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 101 The Pulse, which is..raised by the influent Blood, and the Pulsifick or Pulsative faculty, there resident.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §366 What this philosopher in his Phædrus speaketh of the super-celestial region, and the divinity resident therein.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 7 It exists in the whole;..it is a right resident in the nation.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvi. 138 Some have thought that the particles of light are..turned aside by the forces resident in the particles.

1863 A. Ewing Pastoral Let. 25 There the belief and practice we adhere to is most fully resident.

1930 Math. News Let. Oct. 1 Mathematics of itself cannot be said to have an ethical quality, such quality being resident only in human behaviour.

1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. Should you someday discover in yourself the empathy resident in the souls of most humans, I suspect you should come to the conclusion that Canada has taken an admirable stance.

a. Of a thing: situated, lying.† resident site n. Surveying Obsolete rare situation as regards the type of terrain or elevation, etc.

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the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > having a (specified) position

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1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxv. sig. Gg iij ^v This Figure also receyueth the Cube, with his 8 solide angles residente in the 8 centers of his Hexagonall playnes.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. i. 47 Situation may be said to be Resident, and Respicient. Resident Site depends vpon the setling, laying and lying of the grounds.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 116 The Water..of the Globe, as well that resident in it, as that which floats upon it.

1740 C. Leslie New Hist. Jamaica ii. 44 The Water, resident in the Abyss, is in all Parts of it stored with a considerable Quantity of Heat.

1793 J. Abernethy Surg. & Physiol. Ess. II. iv. 181 When it arises from poison resident in the part, the gland is first indurated.

1831 J. Conder Italy I. ii. 97 The image, which is resident in a chapel attached to a large church, is made of wax.

1852 Western Hort. Rev. Oct. 13 The amount of gases and air confined in each leaf are condensed,..and hence they give rise to an accelerated motion of the fluids and gases resident in the trunk and roots of the trees.

1924 Art Bull. 7 73 He has wrought valiantly and has,..marshalled one hundred and forty-six, out of two hundred and sixty-two, examples of ancient sculpture resident in our country.

1971 Nature 12 Mar. 91/1 The non-polar amino-acids, for example in myoglobin and haemoglobin, are resident in the interior of the protein molecule, out of contact with the aqueous environment.

2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 25 The hundreds of species of bacteria peacefully resident in the intestine, making up over half the weight of faeces, appear to be beneficial.

†b. Remaining still; firm, abiding. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place

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sedentary1667

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loco-restive1796

untransmigrated1821

stabile1896

static1910

sessile1917

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xi. 139 The watry pavement is not stable and resident like a rock.

5. Computing. Of a program, file, etc.: occupying a permanent place in memory, esp. in main memory or the memory built into a particular device, and hence rapidly accessible during processing. Also: designating the active module of a larger program, the rest of which is stored outside main memory.

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society > computing and information technology > programming language > programme execution > [adjective] > active part of code

resident1966

society > computing and information technology > data > database > [adjective] > storage > manner of

stacked1958

resident1966

1963 Information Processing Jrnl. 2 209/2 The IBM 7070 stretch machine requires, by its speed and design, some resident routine, monitor, or interruption handler.]

1966 C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. 160/1 Examples of resident routines are the dispatcher, the real-time clock routine, and the internal-error processing routines.

1984 QL User Dec. 24 With the programs permanently resident in ROM the transfer of information is virtually simultaneous.

1986 Pract. Computing Oct. 23/2 One advantage..is that MS-DOS function 27H can be used to allow a program to terminate but stay resident.

2004 Internet Mag. New Year 16/2 You'll get..the option to automatically scan files you've downloaded for viruses using your system's resident AV software.

6. Of a parent: residing with his or her dependent children. Opposed to non-resident adj. 5.

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1967 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 29 522/2 The proportion of time that the household had been without a resident father or male head of any kind was calculated.

1977 Times 1 Apr. 7/3 A high proportion of West Indian families have no resident father.

2002 D. Cheal Sociol. Family Life vi. 94 Gender differences in providing care tend to be accentuated in post-divorce families, since a non-resident parent (usually the father) does not contribute as much to the care of a child as the resident parent does.

B. n.¹

a. A person who resides permanently in a place; a permanent or settled inhabitant of a town, district, etc. Also: a guest staying one or more nights at a hotel, etc. Also figurative. Cf. non-resident n. 2.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun]

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inhabitator?a1475

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habitant1490

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occupier?1542

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ledger1600

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in hotel, inn, etc.

guestc1290

resident1956

1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §40. m. 13 Burgeises, inhabitauntes and residentes.

1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §35. m. 13 To eny inhabitauntez, residentes or dwellers in eny cite.

1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 36 The Residents, homeborne, and straungers in that prouince.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) i. i. 4 His Loves are wanderers, they knock at each door, And tast each dish, but are no residents.

1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. i. vi. 13 He's shrewdly wrong'd if he be n't Cromwel's Agent for all the Taverns between Kings-street and the Devil at Temple-bar, indeed he's a kind o' Resident in 'em.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xiii. 489 She asked me, from what vale or mountain I came, and how long I had been a resident in that wild part of the world?

1784 Ordinance 23 Apr. in T. Jefferson Papers (1952) VI. 615 The lands of non resident proprietors shall in no case be taxed higher than those of residents within any new state.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. iii. 289 The pursuits of the enlightened resident or traveller in every department of science.

1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. iii. 35 It was yet more that he had been a long resident with his family.

1890 Spectator 5 Apr. In Ireland..‘residents’ will soon grow as numerous as in the thinner ‘residential districts’ of Great Britain.

1917 Huon Times (Franklin, Tasmania) 14 Aug. 3/5 The Aurora Australis reported to have been observed throughout the island on Thursday last was also witnessed here by many residents shortly before seven o'clock.

1956 M. Stewart Wildfire at Midnight xii. 103 A little sitting-room beside the residents' lounge.

1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius vi. vii. 109 The local residents protected the privacy of their precious town so closely, a native explained, that signposts regularly disappeared or were turned around to confuse any infiltrators.

2001 M. Jackson Weathering Storms (2002) vi. 105 She felt oppressed by the presence of the ‘monster’ who had been a resident in her mind.

b. Christian Church. A resident incumbent of a benefice, etc. Now historical.

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society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > residentiary > [noun]

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1567 Articles Dioces Norwiche sig. A.i^v You shal distribute to the moste poore and needye of the clergye that be residentes.

1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church ix. 177 When any Benefice or Dignity is void, bless us!..how narrowly do they enquire into the value of it, how much a Resident, or non-Resident may raise out of it?

1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 85 The number of non-residents exceeds the number of residents.

1873 R. Phillimore Eccl. Law II. 1145 The bishop shall provide, that in every church there shall be one resident.

1999 T. Jenkins Relig. in Eng. Everyday Life ii. vii. 61 The vision of an incumbent resident in every rural parish, with the church well-attended and integrated into local life,..was in fact a very specific product of nineteenth-century economic, technical, social and moral changes.

c. A bird or other animal which is resident in a locality or region and does not migrate (cf. sense A. 1c). In wider use: an animal species which is a usual member of the fauna of a specified locality or habitat.

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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > that does not migrate

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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 318 Some birds, which with us are faithful residents, in other kingdoms put on the nature of birds of passage, and disappear for a season.

1842 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 68 Geophaps smithii..Partridge Pigeon, Residents at Port Essington.

1884 H. Seebohm Hist. Brit. Birds II. 562 The Purple Gallinule..is a resident in Algeria, Spain, and Italy.

1920 H. F. Witherby Pract. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 18 After nesting our residents [sc. rooks] are subject to partial and irregular movements—some probably emigrating to Continent.

1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 1st Ser. 213 The Mistle-Thrush..is a common resident in the British Isles, and throughout most of Europe and western Siberia.

1990 Nat. World Spring–Summer 14/3 The large heath butterfly and several moths are other common residents on bogs.

1996 Guardian 19 Mar. i. 16/7 The third..was an Orache Moth, a species extinct as a resident in the UK for more than a century, and today recorded on extremely rare occasions as an immigrant.

d. A student who resides at school, a boarder.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder

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parlour boarder1768

weekly boarder1800

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1843 Ann. Rep. of Superintendent of Public Instr. (Michigan Dept. of Public Instruction) 60 About one-half of the scholars attending the first two schools are residents, giving 50 per quarter.

1859 W. Fairfax Handbk. Australasia 94 The actual daily attendance being about 170, including day pupils, day boarders, and residents.

1918 J. M. Groves in G. S. Phelps Red Triangle in Changing Nations iv. 73 It now has 160 dormitory residents, all of whom attend the morning chapel service held daily at six o'clock.

1969 Jrnl. Educ. Measurem. 6 138 The residents of the school are underachievers, but are not considered to be mentally retarded.

2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Dec. b2 The state investigation..did not recommend the barring of restraint holds to subdue unruly residents at the school.

a. Any of various government or colonial representatives required to reside in a foreign country while carrying out official duties; spec. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court; a representative of the East India Company residing at a commercial station; a representative of the Governor General residing at the court of an Indian state; a British government agent in a semi-independent state. Also in extended use. Now historical.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > resident representative

residencer1541

resident1641

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amban1827

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > resident representative > of British government

resident1641

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1641 E. Hyde Argvment before Lords 11 The house of Commons is of opinion, that the Commission and Instructions whereby the Resident and Counsell of the North, exercise a Iurisdiction is illegall, both in the creation and execution.

1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 231 It might be supposed, that..he should understand the difference between a resident and an ambassador extraordinary.

1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 23 You keep Company with the Devil's Resident.

1736 W. Oldys in W. Raleigh Hist. World (ed. 11) I. p. cli I thought he might possibly come at it by ministerial direction to an English resident.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xliv. 494 Sir Henry Nevil, the English resident in France.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings iii. 46 The mischiefs likely to happen to the said country from the establishment of a Resident.

1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 43 A factory belonging to the English company, where a commercial resident is constantly stationed.

1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. iv. 126 The public property there was estimated..by the British resident.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vii. 273 The Resident consented..to the Raja's request for a suspension of hostilities.

1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 545/1 The Administration of the Native States is generally vested in an hereditary..prince,..controlled in some degree by a British resident.

1880 Times 13 Jan. 5/2 Cetywayo drove away the missionaries and refused to receive an English Resident in Zululand.

1900 Times 14 Mar. 13/2 Information reached the British Resident that there were various suspicious articles on board destined for Delagoa Bay.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari v. 90 I spent the evening and night with the Resident and his wife..in the ample Residency.

1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave i. 13 The British Resident was confiding to the Finance Minister his distrust of the Prime Minister.

1998 M. Durie Whaiora (ed. 2) iii. 30 By the 1830s, missionaries and the British Resident began to express concern about high Maori mortality rates.

b. The governor of a residency (residency n. 3) in the Dutch East Indies. Now historical.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in Dutch East Indies

resident1814

1814 T. S. Raffles Substance of Minute on Java 163 In criminal [cases], the jurisdiction and authority of the Resident has been considerably extended.

1861 J. W. B. Money Java I. 196 The resident is the first local European authority.

1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 108 The resident of Banjoemas wrote that the native officials..had given themselves a great deal of trouble to fight the opium habit.

1983 J. G. Taylor Social World of Batavia v. 117 Reynst had emigrated to Java at eighteen and had served the colonial government in such posts as resident of Palembang (1823–26) and councillor (1836).

3. A resident physician or surgeon (see sense A. 2b); (North American) a medical graduate who has completed an internship and is engaged in further, often specialized, training in a hospital department (cf. registrar n. 3).

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > intermediate hospital level

house physician1753

house surgeon1757

resident1892

houseman1924

ressie1982

1821 Med. Repository New Ser. 6 102 My sole and immediate directions..were carried into effect by that intelligent and judicious young physician, Dr. Campbell, who was then the medical resident.

1855 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 19 Jan. 64/2 The medical establishment shall consist of not exceeding three honorary medical officers, and one medical resident.

1883 Lancet 27 Jan. 169/2 It may be hoped that these painstaking and capable medical residents will communicate these results to the profession.

1892 Rep. Johns Hopkins Hospital III. 21 Dr. William Osler [gave]..Books for Resident's Reading Room.

1914 Mod. Hospital 2 30/2 The sixth floor is primarily for residents' quarters. The chief resident will have his study, bed room, and private bath.

1931 E. G. Reid Great Physician vi. 116 Long term residents took the place of the usual short term internship. His first Resident Physician had under him three assistant residents.

1977 E. Trevor Theta Syndrome vi. 85 Never..disturb the senior resident when he's on his rounds, unless the place is on fire.

2008 G. Cooper Hosp. Survival i. 8 When the resident is grilled about why he chose the treatment, the resident says that he consulted the attending.

4. An intelligence agent in charge of other agents in a particular foreign country. Cf. rezident n.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent > in a foreign country

resident1959

rezident1968

1959 P. Deriabin & F. Gibney Secret World xv. 177 The terms ‘Resident’ and ‘Residency’, translations of the Russian Rezident and Rezidentura, are not to be confused either with U.S. legal terminology or the British colonial outposts on which the sun never sets.

1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold viii. 74 The Resident in a particular country would make a requisition... The Resident could draw it [sc. money] himself and hand it to the agent.

1975 Times 16 Dec. 7/5 Herr Guillaume soon became a ‘resident’—the head of a group of spies.

1999 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 20 Sept. c11 The suspicious KGB resident found Agee's offer too good to be true, concluded it was part of a CIA plot and turned him away.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the adjective.

resident adviser n. (also resident advisor) U.S. (in a college or university) a student who is responsible for supervising and assisting other, typically younger, students who live in the same residence hall.

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1900 Proc. 8th Ann. Gen. Meeting (Soc. for Promotion of Engin. Educ.) 289 Holders of fellowships have the advantage, while there [sc. in Rome], of a resident advisor.

1932 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. e7/3 (heading) Lafayette College now helps in providing the chapters with resident advisers... Graduate students are installed to act as leaders and guide members in their studies.

1970 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 16 Jan. 1/8 The resident adviser of the dormitory had a temporary phone for emergencies.

1998 K. M. Williams Learning Limits ii. 38 Some of the resident advisors were known as being strict when enforcing the antidrug/antidrinking rules.

2012 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 10 Oct. c1 He then locked himself in his dorm room before the resident advisor used a master key to unlock the door.

resident alien n. now chiefly U.S. a foreign national residing on an official basis in a country of which he or she is not a citizen; cf. non-citizen n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > non-native inhabitant

alien?a1400

out-comelingc1400

strangerc1460

free denizen1551

denizen1576

peregrine1593

inmatea1600

outcomer1607

resident alien1801

metic1808

expatriate1818

international1851

offcome1859

overrunner1876

aubain1882

offcomer1898

non-native1899

outworlder1948

transplant1961

expat1962

non-patrial1971

1801 H. Gwillim App. Bacon's New Abridgem. Law VI. 53 A resident alien, it hath been adjudged, is entitled to the benefit of a general pardon.

1891 H. Sidgwick Elem. Politics xiv. 222 In most countries it is possible for a citizen to expatriate himself, acquire a new nationality, and then return to live in his native land as a resident alien.

1942 Amer. Observer 2 Feb. 1/3 Resident aliens of Austrian, Danish, Italian, Czech, and German birth flocked into recruiting stations.

2000 R. Rubio-Marín Immigration as Democratic Challenge vi. 111 It is conceivable that some resident aliens would still not want to become nationals whatever the benefits doing otherwise might imply.

resident ambassador n. = ambassador n. 2.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador

ambassador1524

ledger1548

ledger-ambassador (also ambassador ledger)1550

resident ambassador?1551

ambassador extraordinary1603

embassador1603

?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 827/1 To the 9. he sayth he heard nothing, vnto the tyme that he being resident Ambassador in Flaunders, was aduertised by the lordes of the counsayles letters.

1691 R. Baxter Against Revolt to Foreign Jurisdict. i. Pref. 23 Grotius..got out in a Trunk, on pretence of carrying away his Books, becoming the Queen of Swedens Resident Embassador in France.

1797 C. Ludger tr. J. P. Siebenkees Life Bianca Capello 83 The Florentine nobility, the magistrates, the resident ambassadors, (except the Austrian minister) and a number of other families of distinction.

1897 19th Cent. Nov. 840 The practice of sending resident ambassadors took definite shape, and sovereigns sought to gain their ends by substituting diplomacy for force.

2006 J. C. Barker Protection of Diplomatic Personnel iii. 38 The emergence of resident ambassadors can, to a large extent, be ascribed to..the need for states to be kept up to date with the intentions of their rivals.

resident assistant n. a person employed as an assistant in an educational institution while residing on the premises; spec. (U.S.) = resident adviser n.

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1800 Courier 27 Aug. The gentleman with whom he had been placed for his education, had, according to custom, sent him and the other boarders, under the care of the resident assistant, to bathe.

1838 Papers Central Soc. Educ. II. 199 (title of article) Resident assistants in private boarding-schools.

1939 Mich. Alumnus 22 July 330/2 One night late in the year when the examinations were over a half dozen or more of those who knew each other best gathered after supper in the room of the resident assistant.

1993 Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Mar. 76/8 (advt.) A candidate interested in pastoral work as a Resident Assistant in a boys' boarding House would be preferred.

2013 Wayne Today (Passaic, New Jersey) (Nexis) 24 Oct. a29 Leadership in the halls includes resident assistants for KU's eight residence halls.

resident commissioner n. any of various commissioners or delegates working in a diplomatic capacity in or on behalf of a colony, protectorate, etc.

ΚΠ

1769 J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. I. 376 He..was appointed a resident commissioner at Edinburgh, to attend the parliament of Scotland; as the Scots had their resident commissioners at London, to attend the English parliament.

1839 S. Austral. Gaz. (Adelaide) 7 Nov. 2 In reference to those portions of land usually called ‘Green Slips’..the Resident Commissioner is of opinion that..no valid claims upon them exist.

1902 U.S. Laws & Statutes (1903) XXXII. i. 694 With the first meeting of the Philippine legislature..there shall be chosen, by the said legislature..two resident commissioners to the United States.

1962 J. C. Plano & M. Greenberg Amer. Polit. Dict. iii. 38 Resident commissioner, a delegate elected by the people of a territory to represent them in the House of Representatives. He may speak in the House and serve on committees, but he may not vote... Only Puerto Rico has a resident commissioner.

1979 Maclean's 11 June 10/1 After 12 years as the first resident commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Stuart Hodgson, on his final tour of his Arctic domain, couldn't resist making a few parting gestures: a half-day holiday for one settlement, a free coat of paint for a community hall.

resident magistrate n. (frequently with capital initials) a magistrate resident in the place in which he or she serves; spec. one acting as a representative of the British government in a semi-independent state (now historical); abbreviated R.M.

ΚΠ

1789 G. O. Paul Addr. Magistrates Glocester 2 Whilst I continue to be a resident Magistrate, I shall cheerfully take my share of those duties.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 200 A Marine Police..under the particular direction of the Superintending and Resident Magistrate.

1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. i. 10 You wouldn't meet a Christian out of doors, unless it was..a resident magistrate.

1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 40 I'm a Resident Magistrate now, you know. One of the biggest stations in the Territory.

1989 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 26 July 3/1 Daniel Mzandi was also ordered to receive three strokes of the cane by a Mombasa Resident Magistrate, Miss Jenifer Thuita, after being found guilty of theft.

C2. Compounds of the noun.

residents' association n. (also with capital initials) a group formed by members of a particular community to represent the community's or other local interests.

ΚΠ

1876 Proc. Semi-centennial Celebration of Incorporation Town of Lowell 55 A book containing the papers that were read before the Old Residents' Association of this city or town.]

1879 Chicago Tribune 30 Nov. 16/1 Humboldt Park Residents' Association.

1908 Flatbush of To-day 99 The Residents' Association, formed in 1901, to take up with the proper officials certain local improvements, and to engage in such other activities as would tend to make South Midwood more attractive.

1995 M. Lawrence et al. Which? Guide Home Safety & Security ii. 144 If a residents' association or similar community group already exists, the Neighbourhood Watch scheme can build on that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	resident
释义	† residentn.² Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin resīdent-, resīdēns, resīdere. Etymology: < classical Latin resīdent-, resīdēns, present participle of resīdere reside v.² Compare Anglo-Norman resident (adjective) remaining (1380 or earlier). Compare earlier residence n.² and later reside v.² Obsolete. 1. Deposited material, sediment; dregs. Frequently in plural. Cf. residence n.² 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being solid rather than fluid > [noun] > solid matter which falls to bottom of liquid drega1300 groundsa1340 upon the lee1390 foundersc1450 residence1539 sediment1547 resident1558 precipitate1594 settling1594 precipitation1605 crassament1615 subsistence1622 subsidence1646 sedimen1655 crassamentum1657 deposit1781 sludge1839 ppt1864 1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. xvii In the Splene is nothing but the sex degrees, or heauie residentes of the bloud. 1589 J. Banister Antidotarie Chyrurg. 229 Then boyle the residents againe with so much water as before. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. v. 47 The next vrine was of a pale straw coloured yellow, with some whitish residents. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 129 As much as one Ounce of dry Residents, whether Saline or Earthy. 2. A residue, a remainder. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] bilevena1325 reliefa1382 residuea1382 remanant?a1400 remanence?a1425 remanent?a1425 remainc1430 remainant1430 rest?1440 remainingc1480 remainer1519 remanet?a1527 remainder1560 resident1581 residuum1636 restancy1667 residual1839 1581 W. Fowler Answer Hammiltoun 41 In constantinus age the resident of the faithfull was so small that [etc.]. a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 130 After a little toile, the whole resident of their life shalbe topt with..tranquility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2020). residentadj.n.¹ Brit. /ˈrɛzᵻd(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈrɛz(ə)d(ə)nt/ Forms: Middle English resydentt, Middle English–1500s recydent, Middle English–1500s residente, Middle English–1500s resydent, Middle English– resident, 1500s reasident, 1500s resedent, 1500s resedente, 1500s residence (plural), 1500s resydente, 1600s recident. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French resident; Latin resident-, residens. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French resident (French résident ) (adjective) residing, dwelling (1280 in Old French), staying in a place as an envoy or diplomat (1501), (noun) person who dwells in a particular place, inhabitant (c1268) and its etymon post-classical Latin resident-, residens (adjective) residing (12th cent. or earlier), (noun) person who resides permanently in a place (10th cent.), resident tenant (c1115, c1450 in British sources), residentiary canon (1586 in a British source), use as adjective and noun of classical Latin resident- , residēns , present participle of residēre reside v.¹ Compare Catalan resident (13th cent.), Spanish residente (13th cent., earliest with reference to clerics), Portuguese residente (1341), Italian residente (a1347). With use as noun compare earlier non-resident n. Compare later reside v.¹With sense A. 2 compare earlier residence n.¹ 1. With sense A. 5 compare slightly earlier reside v.¹ 6. With sense B. 1b compare earlier residenter n., residentiary n., and residencer n. In sense B. 2b after Dutch resident governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies (1806; earlier in senses ‘member of staff at a trading post in the Dutch East Indies’ (1645), ‘leader of such a trading post, with diplomatic responsibilities’ (1678; compare sense B. 2a)). In sense B. 4 after Russian rezident rezident n. A. adj. 1. That resides, dwells, or has an abode in a place; living somewhere on a long-term basis. a. In predicative use. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] residentc1384 indwelling14.. lentc1400 resiant1433 mansionary1447 inhabitant1526 commorantc1534 demurrant1544 ledger1577 couchant1602 inhabitinga1617 residentiary1640 residenting1650 habitant1856 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xii. 2 These that dwelten, or wern resident [L. resederant]..suffriden not hem for to do in silence and quyet. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 35 (MED) For surenes to reule the cuntre, They promotyd..ij lordys to be resydent in the chef cyte. c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxv Say to the men that there bene resident, How long think thay to stand in my disdeyne. 1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 14 He or she..shall nat be taken out of the saintuary, wherein the same person shall then be resydent. a1592 R. Greene Orpharion (1599) 3 Tell mee whether Venus is resident about this mount of Erecinus, or no. 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Consol. Helvia in tr. Seneca Wks. 737 Hee hath alwaies endeuoured that his greatest goods should consist in himselfe, and the complement of his contents should bee resident in his heart. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 In no other part, are those Birds resident. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 40 The Christian Princes that were then resident at the Port. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 15 He is not said to be resident in a Place, who comes thither with a Purpose of retiring immediately from thence. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 594 Authority herself not seldom sleeps, Through resident, and witness of the wrong. 1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 45 The defendant was resident at Bennington, but not an inhabitant. 1835 T. Carlyle Let. 4 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1981) VIII. 137 I am neither Pagan nor Turk, nor circumcised Jew, but an unfortunate Christian individual resident at Chelsea. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. i. 5 The inhabitants of each [country], whether resident in France..or Flanders. 1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare v. 179 Ophelia..is always more resident in his soul than maintained within a palace. 1928 W. C. MacLeod Amer. Indian Frontier xxxv. 522 The prophet Smohalla was a member of a small band of about two hundred Indians,..resident on the Rocky Mountain plateau. 1991 Artist Nov. 45/1 This competition is open to all artists resident in the British Isles. b. attributive. ΚΠ 1727 H. Boulter Let. 13 Feb. (1769) I. 213 In many places here one fourth or fifth of the resident justices are clergymen, for want of resident gentlemen. 1790 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks IV. xiv. 102 She became kitchen-maid at a fashionable brothel; and,..when all the resident ladies of the house happened to be engaged,..she was occasionally dressed and served up. 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 1343/2 He considered resident country gentlemen the greatest blessing of this country. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 259 Its resident population does not much exceed two hundred and twenty thousand, comprised within the..limits of the city. 1853 G. B. Earp N.Z. 238 In the case of squatting, it is advisable to pay a small..tribute to the resident natives. 1934 G. Ross Tips on Tables 41 Home Dining Room... This plain and thoroughly native little restaurant has always been the gathering place of visiting and resident Hungarians. 1988 Reviews Infectious Dis. 10 457/2 Since 1974 all resident village children had received one dose of Schwarz-strain attenuated measles vaccine. 2001 Sunday Mirror (Electronic ed.) 14 Jan. 26 No sooner had Tony Blair moved into Downing Street than the resident veteran mouser mysteriously vanished into ‘retirement’. c. Of a bird or other animal: remaining in a locality or region throughout the year; not migratory.A bird may be resident as a species, but the same individuals are not necessarily present throughout the year (cf. quot. 1899). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory > not migratory resident1790 sedentary1851 1790 G. Riley Beauties of Creation I. 134 Some Birds, which migrate in particular climates, are constantly resident in others. 1828 J. Fleming Hist. Brit. Animals p. xiii The Resident Animals are such as can accommodate themselves to all the changes of this variable climate. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 427 The same sagacity that has taught them the habits of the resident animals. 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 17 There are many Birds which, though resident as species, are migratory as individuals. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 589 We mean by ‘partial migrants’ those birds which are never without their representatives in the country under consideration, yet some always migrate while other remain resident. 1993 Country Side July–Aug. 5/1 Twenty six species of butterfly and over fifteen species of resident day-flying macro moths have been recorded. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) vii. 227 The three main seal species hunted were the common seal (alias harbor seal), which is resident all year round in Greenland..; and the migratory harp seal and hooded seal. 2. a. Staying regularly in or at a place for the performance of official duties or in compliance with regulations; (also) †continually present in an assembly (obsolete). Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. residence n.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > to fulfil requirements resident1426 residencer1428 resiant1600 residentiarya1629 residentary1686 the world > space > place > presence > [adjective] > continually present in an assembly resident1426 1426 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1426 §31. m. 7 Also prebendaries of chirches cathedralx and collegiall, for þe tyme þat þai been resident at þe said chirches cathedrall or collegiall. 1449 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 66 (MED) Besechith..your said suppliaunt to be exempt & discharged from the said abbey and to goo and be resident in an oþer place of lyke ordre. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 137 Wagis ar nocht ordanyt tobe gevin to personis nocht resident. 1536 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 28 All persones and vicares and other beneficed men and pensionaries within this deanry not being resident upon their benefices. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 88 A nother yl custume that prestys be not resydent apon theyr benefycys. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxc That euery man be resident in his own church, and that eche man shuld haue one benefice. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 131 I am come to Kilkenny..without any one Commander or Captaine of the Army, hauing left them all with commandement to be resident on their charge. 1642 Earle of Pembrooke et al. New Propositions sig. A2^v These and the like Assurances of danger, caused the Lords and Commons now resident in Parliament to publish severall Propositions in generall, to all the Kingdome. 1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son: 2nd Pt. §23. 65 Mr. Hampden, Mr. Pim, &c. were resident in all Parliaments, their age gave them opportunity to Assist in. 1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 8 If any Customer, Comptroller, or Searcher be not resident upon his Place and Office. 1714 J. Ayliffe Antient & Present State Univ. Oxf. II. iii. i. 141 All publick Professors and Lecturers..are accounted Regents ad placitum; so are all Resident Doctors, of what Faculty soever. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 148 [Warton] There was only one other Fellow of Pembroke now resident. 1804 R. Heber Let. 23 Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. i. 38 The Michaelmas term I shall, I think, be resident. 1887 W. J. Loftie London vii. 154 The ‘stagiaries’ or resident canons conducted the services of the church. 1917 Nature 25 Jan. 422/1 The number of undergraduates resident during the term is not expected to exceed four hundred. 1991 J. Caldwell Oxf. Hist. Eng. Music I. iv. 176 The canons, whether resident or not, had long ceased to fulfil their obligation of singing the daily Office. b. In attributive use: having quarters on the premises of one's work; attached to and working regularly for a particular institution. Also: working in a diplomatic or intelligence capacity from a foreign headquarters (cf. minister resident n. at minister n. 6c). ΚΠ 1698 J. Groeneveldt Late Censors Deservedly Censured 8 The Collegiate Physicians, and all other Practitioners, Apothecaries, Naval and Resident Surgeons, and Druggists are under your immediate Inspection, pray cast them up and tell us how many Thousand they are. 1725 Acct. Found. Royal Hosp. 62 (list of salaries) Resident Surgeon. 1812 Laws & Ordinances City of New-York 202 It shall be the duty of the said resident physician and health commissioner, to meet daily at the health office, from the thirty-first day of May to the first day of October. 1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 89 A rectory of two medieties, served by two resident rectors. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xx. 82 Having off-loaded my waggon, I handed it over to Mr. Arnott, the resident blacksmith, to undergo repairs. 1874 Chambers's Encycl. V. 544/1 Resident political agents are appointed by the British government at the courts of the native princes. 1934 Amer. Rev. Tuberculosis 30 188 The maintenance by each sizeable sanatorium of a resident thoracic surgeon whose special training in phthisiotherapy can be relied upon to aid in careful selection of suitable cases for surgical collapse. 1959 Times 8 June 13/1 Resident nannies and baby-minders. 1963 J. Joesten They call it Intelligence ii. viii. 73 Abel..held the post of ‘resident officer’... His job was to recruit and organize local spies. 1997 Escape Mar.–Apr. 13/2 Café Surf wheeled out their resident nerd techie..and his fingertips flew across the keyboard for some moments before he announced to a surly audience that the whole thing was buggered. c. Designating a professional artist or writer employed, usually for a specified period, to work among and interact with the members of a college or other institution. Cf. residence n.¹ Phrases 5b. ΚΠ 1879 Punch 27 Dec. 292/2 Of course a resident Poet and Librettist will be required on the premises. Early applications necessary. 1925 Atlanta Constit. 31 Jan. 16 DuBose Heyward..will be resident poet and member of the department of English at Agnes Scott college. 1962 Art Jrnl. 21 175/3 After a period of teaching at Syracuse University he came to the University of Notre Dame, where for several years he had been ‘resident sculptor’ and distinguished guest. 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 2 Sept. 93/1 In addition to the free space and technical support, plus a small stipend, resident artists have complete artistic control and freedom to work on personal pet projects. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Dec. 29 After the Liverpool Playhouse put on her second play,..she became its resident writer. d. Designating a musician or ensemble engaged on a regular or long-term basis at a club or other venue. Cf. residency n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [adjective] > resident resident1928 1928 Observer 13 May 14/2 (advt.) Resident Band, bi-weekly dances. 1958 S. Traill in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz vi. 75 Every cheap speakeasy had its resident piano player. 1977 Belfast Tel. 19 Jan. 3/9 The resident band..will be George Chambers and the Apex. 1995 Face Aug. 155/1 As the resident DJ at London's Speed, Bukem has brought drum and bass to the heart of the West End. 2008 R. D. Cohen Hist. Folk Music Festivals in U.S. ii. 50 His Chicago club,..where she met Bob Gibson, the resident performer. e. In humorous or ironic use, of a person with a certain (frequently undesirable or inescapable) characteristic. ΚΠ 1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses vii. 128 None other than our resident nihilist, our old friend, Riley. 1988 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 May 22/2 ‘I suppose I'll be the resident bitch,’ she said without batting an eyelid. 2001 Advocate 3 July 54/2 As the film's resident baddie, McFadden's just way over the top. 3. Of a quality, power, etc.: abiding, present, inherent, established. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] propera1325 indwelling14.. resident1525 subsistenta1530 corporate1531 immanent1535 intrinsical?1545 integral1551 inexistent1553 internal1564 subjective1564 insident1583 inward1587 inherent1588 imminent1605 inhering1609 intern1612 subjectory1614 intimate1632 inhesive1639 intrinsic1642 implantate1650 medullary1651 implicit1658 inexisting1678 originala1682 indwelt1855 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] truea1225 certain1297 standing1457 surec1475 stable1481 finite1493 resident1525 determinate1526 staid?1541 constantc1550 undiscomfitablea1555 inveterate1563 sound1565 unwanderinga1569 fixed1574 undisturbable1577 wishly1578 unremovable1579 inveterated1597 immoved1599 rigid1610 staple1621 consistent1648 irradicable1728 incoercible1756 hard and fast1822 unstrangulable1824 lockstep1831 statical1853 static1856 flatline1946 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxix. [cxxv.] 367 It wyll be very harde to make peace in that place, where as great hatered and warre is resydent. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 44 Let this thought be alwayes resident in your mind. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xix. 225 One ignorant of him would not haue thought any effeminat sparke resident in him. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 101 The Pulse, which is..raised by the influent Blood, and the Pulsifick or Pulsative faculty, there resident. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §366 What this philosopher in his Phædrus speaketh of the super-celestial region, and the divinity resident therein. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 7 It exists in the whole;..it is a right resident in the nation. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvi. 138 Some have thought that the particles of light are..turned aside by the forces resident in the particles. 1863 A. Ewing Pastoral Let. 25 There the belief and practice we adhere to is most fully resident. 1930 Math. News Let. Oct. 1 Mathematics of itself cannot be said to have an ethical quality, such quality being resident only in human behaviour. 1995 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. Should you someday discover in yourself the empathy resident in the souls of most humans, I suspect you should come to the conclusion that Canada has taken an admirable stance. 4. a. Of a thing: situated, lying.† resident site n. Surveying Obsolete rare situation as regards the type of terrain or elevation, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > having a (specified) position besteda1300 set13.. situatec1425 bestowed1484 situatedc1487 collocate1529 resident1571 sited1578 posited1666 stowed1674 couched1675 enlodged1678 parked1807 1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxv. sig. Gg iij ^v This Figure also receyueth the Cube, with his 8 solide angles residente in the 8 centers of his Hexagonall playnes. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. i. 47 Situation may be said to be Resident, and Respicient. Resident Site depends vpon the setling, laying and lying of the grounds. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 116 The Water..of the Globe, as well that resident in it, as that which floats upon it. 1740 C. Leslie New Hist. Jamaica ii. 44 The Water, resident in the Abyss, is in all Parts of it stored with a considerable Quantity of Heat. 1793 J. Abernethy Surg. & Physiol. Ess. II. iv. 181 When it arises from poison resident in the part, the gland is first indurated. 1831 J. Conder Italy I. ii. 97 The image, which is resident in a chapel attached to a large church, is made of wax. 1852 Western Hort. Rev. Oct. 13 The amount of gases and air confined in each leaf are condensed,..and hence they give rise to an accelerated motion of the fluids and gases resident in the trunk and roots of the trees. 1924 Art Bull. 7 73 He has wrought valiantly and has,..marshalled one hundred and forty-six, out of two hundred and sixty-two, examples of ancient sculpture resident in our country. 1971 Nature 12 Mar. 91/1 The non-polar amino-acids, for example in myoglobin and haemoglobin, are resident in the interior of the protein molecule, out of contact with the aqueous environment. 2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 25 The hundreds of species of bacteria peacefully resident in the intestine, making up over half the weight of faeces, appear to be beneficial. †b. Remaining still; firm, abiding. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > remaining in one place stablea1400 dormantc1440 standing1469 remanent?a1475 ledger1547 fixed1559 restiff1578 statary1581 permanent1588 consistent1604 stationary1631 fundamental1633 resident1653 sedentary1667 statual1752 loco-restive1796 untransmigrated1821 stabile1896 static1910 sessile1917 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xi. 139 The watry pavement is not stable and resident like a rock. 5. Computing. Of a program, file, etc.: occupying a permanent place in memory, esp. in main memory or the memory built into a particular device, and hence rapidly accessible during processing. Also: designating the active module of a larger program, the rest of which is stored outside main memory. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > programme execution > [adjective] > active part of code resident1966 society > computing and information technology > data > database > [adjective] > storage > manner of stacked1958 resident1966 1963 Information Processing Jrnl. 2 209/2 The IBM 7070 stretch machine requires, by its speed and design, some resident routine, monitor, or interruption handler.] 1966 C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. 160/1 Examples of resident routines are the dispatcher, the real-time clock routine, and the internal-error processing routines. 1984 QL User Dec. 24 With the programs permanently resident in ROM the transfer of information is virtually simultaneous. 1986 Pract. Computing Oct. 23/2 One advantage..is that MS-DOS function 27H can be used to allow a program to terminate but stay resident. 2004 Internet Mag. New Year 16/2 You'll get..the option to automatically scan files you've downloaded for viruses using your system's resident AV software. 6. Of a parent: residing with his or her dependent children. Opposed to non-resident adj. 5. ΚΠ 1967 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 29 522/2 The proportion of time that the household had been without a resident father or male head of any kind was calculated. 1977 Times 1 Apr. 7/3 A high proportion of West Indian families have no resident father. 2002 D. Cheal Sociol. Family Life vi. 94 Gender differences in providing care tend to be accentuated in post-divorce families, since a non-resident parent (usually the father) does not contribute as much to the care of a child as the resident parent does. B. n.¹ 1. a. A person who resides permanently in a place; a permanent or settled inhabitant of a town, district, etc. Also: a guest staying one or more nights at a hotel, etc. Also figurative. Cf. non-resident n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] maneOE wonnera1340 dwellera1382 livera1382 indweller1382 resiant1405 inhabitor1413 inhabitera1425 tenanta1425 abider1440 citizenc1450 inhabitant1462 resident1463 denizen1474 inhabitator?a1475 mansionarya1475 habitant1490 incolera1513 occupier?1542 land-occupier1576 residentiary1581 burgessa1586 incolant1596 consistorian1599 ledger1600 resider1632 residenter1644 habitator1646 endwellera1649 incolary1652 incolist1657 insetter1712 houser1871 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in hotel, inn, etc. guestc1290 resident1956 1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §40. m. 13 Burgeises, inhabitauntes and residentes. 1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 §35. m. 13 To eny inhabitauntez, residentes or dwellers in eny cite. 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 36 The Residents, homeborne, and straungers in that prouince. a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) i. i. 4 His Loves are wanderers, they knock at each door, And tast each dish, but are no residents. 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. i. vi. 13 He's shrewdly wrong'd if he be n't Cromwel's Agent for all the Taverns between Kings-street and the Devil at Temple-bar, indeed he's a kind o' Resident in 'em. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. xiii. 489 She asked me, from what vale or mountain I came, and how long I had been a resident in that wild part of the world? 1784 Ordinance 23 Apr. in T. Jefferson Papers (1952) VI. 615 The lands of non resident proprietors shall in no case be taxed higher than those of residents within any new state. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. iii. 289 The pursuits of the enlightened resident or traveller in every department of science. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. iii. 35 It was yet more that he had been a long resident with his family. 1890 Spectator 5 Apr. In Ireland..‘residents’ will soon grow as numerous as in the thinner ‘residential districts’ of Great Britain. 1917 Huon Times (Franklin, Tasmania) 14 Aug. 3/5 The Aurora Australis reported to have been observed throughout the island on Thursday last was also witnessed here by many residents shortly before seven o'clock. 1956 M. Stewart Wildfire at Midnight xii. 103 A little sitting-room beside the residents' lounge. 1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius vi. vii. 109 The local residents protected the privacy of their precious town so closely, a native explained, that signposts regularly disappeared or were turned around to confuse any infiltrators. 2001 M. Jackson Weathering Storms (2002) vi. 105 She felt oppressed by the presence of the ‘monster’ who had been a resident in her mind. b. Christian Church. A resident incumbent of a benefice, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > residentiary > [noun] residenter1446 residencer1522 residentiaryc1525 canon residentiary1556 resident1567 stagiary1868 1567 Articles Dioces Norwiche sig. A.i^v You shal distribute to the moste poore and needye of the clergye that be residentes. 1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church ix. 177 When any Benefice or Dignity is void, bless us!..how narrowly do they enquire into the value of it, how much a Resident, or non-Resident may raise out of it? 1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 85 The number of non-residents exceeds the number of residents. 1873 R. Phillimore Eccl. Law II. 1145 The bishop shall provide, that in every church there shall be one resident. 1999 T. Jenkins Relig. in Eng. Everyday Life ii. vii. 61 The vision of an incumbent resident in every rural parish, with the church well-attended and integrated into local life,..was in fact a very specific product of nineteenth-century economic, technical, social and moral changes. c. A bird or other animal which is resident in a locality or region and does not migrate (cf. sense A. 1c). In wider use: an animal species which is a usual member of the fauna of a specified locality or habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > that does not migrate resident1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 318 Some birds, which with us are faithful residents, in other kingdoms put on the nature of birds of passage, and disappear for a season. 1842 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) V. Pl. 68 Geophaps smithii..Partridge Pigeon, Residents at Port Essington. 1884 H. Seebohm Hist. Brit. Birds II. 562 The Purple Gallinule..is a resident in Algeria, Spain, and Italy. 1920 H. F. Witherby Pract. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 18 After nesting our residents [sc. rooks] are subject to partial and irregular movements—some probably emigrating to Continent. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 1st Ser. 213 The Mistle-Thrush..is a common resident in the British Isles, and throughout most of Europe and western Siberia. 1990 Nat. World Spring–Summer 14/3 The large heath butterfly and several moths are other common residents on bogs. 1996 Guardian 19 Mar. i. 16/7 The third..was an Orache Moth, a species extinct as a resident in the UK for more than a century, and today recorded on extremely rare occasions as an immigrant. d. A student who resides at school, a boarder. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > boarder boarder1530 parlour boarder1768 weekly boarder1800 resident1843 ressie1982 1843 Ann. Rep. of Superintendent of Public Instr. (Michigan Dept. of Public Instruction) 60 About one-half of the scholars attending the first two schools are residents, giving 50 per quarter. 1859 W. Fairfax Handbk. Australasia 94 The actual daily attendance being about 170, including day pupils, day boarders, and residents. 1918 J. M. Groves in G. S. Phelps Red Triangle in Changing Nations iv. 73 It now has 160 dormitory residents, all of whom attend the morning chapel service held daily at six o'clock. 1969 Jrnl. Educ. Measurem. 6 138 The residents of the school are underachievers, but are not considered to be mentally retarded. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Dec. b2 The state investigation..did not recommend the barring of restraint holds to subdue unruly residents at the school. 2. a. Any of various government or colonial representatives required to reside in a foreign country while carrying out official duties; spec. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court; a representative of the East India Company residing at a commercial station; a representative of the Governor General residing at the court of an Indian state; a British government agent in a semi-independent state. Also in extended use. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > resident representative residencer1541 resident1641 proxenos1794 amban1827 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > resident representative > of British government resident1641 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > resident representative > of British government > in India resident1786 1641 E. Hyde Argvment before Lords 11 The house of Commons is of opinion, that the Commission and Instructions whereby the Resident and Counsell of the North, exercise a Iurisdiction is illegall, both in the creation and execution. 1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 231 It might be supposed, that..he should understand the difference between a resident and an ambassador extraordinary. 1684 T. Otway Atheist iii. 23 You keep Company with the Devil's Resident. 1736 W. Oldys in W. Raleigh Hist. World (ed. 11) I. p. cli I thought he might possibly come at it by ministerial direction to an English resident. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xliv. 494 Sir Henry Nevil, the English resident in France. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings iii. 46 The mischiefs likely to happen to the said country from the establishment of a Resident. 1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 43 A factory belonging to the English company, where a commercial resident is constantly stationed. 1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. iv. 126 The public property there was estimated..by the British resident. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. vii. 273 The Resident consented..to the Raja's request for a suspension of hostilities. 1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 545/1 The Administration of the Native States is generally vested in an hereditary..prince,..controlled in some degree by a British resident. 1880 Times 13 Jan. 5/2 Cetywayo drove away the missionaries and refused to receive an English Resident in Zululand. 1900 Times 14 Mar. 13/2 Information reached the British Resident that there were various suspicious articles on board destined for Delagoa Bay. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari v. 90 I spent the evening and night with the Resident and his wife..in the ample Residency. 1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave i. 13 The British Resident was confiding to the Finance Minister his distrust of the Prime Minister. 1998 M. Durie Whaiora (ed. 2) iii. 30 By the 1830s, missionaries and the British Resident began to express concern about high Maori mortality rates. b. The governor of a residency (residency n. 3) in the Dutch East Indies. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > governors by country > [noun] > in Dutch East Indies resident1814 1814 T. S. Raffles Substance of Minute on Java 163 In criminal [cases], the jurisdiction and authority of the Resident has been considerably extended. 1861 J. W. B. Money Java I. 196 The resident is the first local European authority. 1908 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 13 108 The resident of Banjoemas wrote that the native officials..had given themselves a great deal of trouble to fight the opium habit. 1983 J. G. Taylor Social World of Batavia v. 117 Reynst had emigrated to Java at eighteen and had served the colonial government in such posts as resident of Palembang (1823–26) and councillor (1836). 3. A resident physician or surgeon (see sense A. 2b); (North American) a medical graduate who has completed an internship and is engaged in further, often specialized, training in a hospital department (cf. registrar n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > hospital or clinic physician > intermediate hospital level house physician1753 house surgeon1757 resident1892 houseman1924 ressie1982 1821 Med. Repository New Ser. 6 102 My sole and immediate directions..were carried into effect by that intelligent and judicious young physician, Dr. Campbell, who was then the medical resident. 1855 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 19 Jan. 64/2 The medical establishment shall consist of not exceeding three honorary medical officers, and one medical resident. 1883 Lancet 27 Jan. 169/2 It may be hoped that these painstaking and capable medical residents will communicate these results to the profession. 1892 Rep. Johns Hopkins Hospital III. 21 Dr. William Osler [gave]..Books for Resident's Reading Room. 1914 Mod. Hospital 2 30/2 The sixth floor is primarily for residents' quarters. The chief resident will have his study, bed room, and private bath. 1931 E. G. Reid Great Physician vi. 116 Long term residents took the place of the usual short term internship. His first Resident Physician had under him three assistant residents. 1977 E. Trevor Theta Syndrome vi. 85 Never..disturb the senior resident when he's on his rounds, unless the place is on fire. 2008 G. Cooper Hosp. Survival i. 8 When the resident is grilled about why he chose the treatment, the resident says that he consulted the attending. 4. An intelligence agent in charge of other agents in a particular foreign country. Cf. rezident n. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service agent > in a foreign country resident1959 rezident1968 1959 P. Deriabin & F. Gibney Secret World xv. 177 The terms ‘Resident’ and ‘Residency’, translations of the Russian Rezident and Rezidentura, are not to be confused either with U.S. legal terminology or the British colonial outposts on which the sun never sets. 1963 ‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold viii. 74 The Resident in a particular country would make a requisition... The Resident could draw it [sc. money] himself and hand it to the agent. 1975 Times 16 Dec. 7/5 Herr Guillaume soon became a ‘resident’—the head of a group of spies. 1999 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 20 Sept. c11 The suspicious KGB resident found Agee's offer too good to be true, concluded it was part of a CIA plot and turned him away. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. resident adviser n. (also resident advisor) U.S. (in a college or university) a student who is responsible for supervising and assisting other, typically younger, students who live in the same residence hall. ΚΠ 1900 Proc. 8th Ann. Gen. Meeting (Soc. for Promotion of Engin. Educ.) 289 Holders of fellowships have the advantage, while there [sc. in Rome], of a resident advisor. 1932 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. e7/3 (heading) Lafayette College now helps in providing the chapters with resident advisers... Graduate students are installed to act as leaders and guide members in their studies. 1970 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 16 Jan. 1/8 The resident adviser of the dormitory had a temporary phone for emergencies. 1998 K. M. Williams Learning Limits ii. 38 Some of the resident advisors were known as being strict when enforcing the antidrug/antidrinking rules. 2012 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 10 Oct. c1 He then locked himself in his dorm room before the resident advisor used a master key to unlock the door. resident alien n. now chiefly U.S. a foreign national residing on an official basis in a country of which he or she is not a citizen; cf. non-citizen n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > non-native inhabitant alien?a1400 out-comelingc1400 strangerc1460 free denizen1551 denizen1576 peregrine1593 inmatea1600 outcomer1607 resident alien1801 metic1808 expatriate1818 international1851 offcome1859 overrunner1876 aubain1882 offcomer1898 non-native1899 outworlder1948 transplant1961 expat1962 non-patrial1971 1801 H. Gwillim App. Bacon's New Abridgem. Law VI. 53 A resident alien, it hath been adjudged, is entitled to the benefit of a general pardon. 1891 H. Sidgwick Elem. Politics xiv. 222 In most countries it is possible for a citizen to expatriate himself, acquire a new nationality, and then return to live in his native land as a resident alien. 1942 Amer. Observer 2 Feb. 1/3 Resident aliens of Austrian, Danish, Italian, Czech, and German birth flocked into recruiting stations. 2000 R. Rubio-Marín Immigration as Democratic Challenge vi. 111 It is conceivable that some resident aliens would still not want to become nationals whatever the benefits doing otherwise might imply. resident ambassador n. = ambassador n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador ambassador1524 ledger1548 ledger-ambassador (also ambassador ledger)1550 resident ambassador?1551 ambassador extraordinary1603 embassador1603 ?1551 Sessions against Gardiner in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 827/1 To the 9. he sayth he heard nothing, vnto the tyme that he being resident Ambassador in Flaunders, was aduertised by the lordes of the counsayles letters. 1691 R. Baxter Against Revolt to Foreign Jurisdict. i. Pref. 23 Grotius..got out in a Trunk, on pretence of carrying away his Books, becoming the Queen of Swedens Resident Embassador in France. 1797 C. Ludger tr. J. P. Siebenkees Life Bianca Capello 83 The Florentine nobility, the magistrates, the resident ambassadors, (except the Austrian minister) and a number of other families of distinction. 1897 19th Cent. Nov. 840 The practice of sending resident ambassadors took definite shape, and sovereigns sought to gain their ends by substituting diplomacy for force. 2006 J. C. Barker Protection of Diplomatic Personnel iii. 38 The emergence of resident ambassadors can, to a large extent, be ascribed to..the need for states to be kept up to date with the intentions of their rivals. resident assistant n. a person employed as an assistant in an educational institution while residing on the premises; spec. (U.S.) = resident adviser n. ΚΠ 1800 Courier 27 Aug. The gentleman with whom he had been placed for his education, had, according to custom, sent him and the other boarders, under the care of the resident assistant, to bathe. 1838 Papers Central Soc. Educ. II. 199 (title of article) Resident assistants in private boarding-schools. 1939 Mich. Alumnus 22 July 330/2 One night late in the year when the examinations were over a half dozen or more of those who knew each other best gathered after supper in the room of the resident assistant. 1993 Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Mar. 76/8 (advt.) A candidate interested in pastoral work as a Resident Assistant in a boys' boarding House would be preferred. 2013 Wayne Today (Passaic, New Jersey) (Nexis) 24 Oct. a29 Leadership in the halls includes resident assistants for KU's eight residence halls. resident commissioner n. any of various commissioners or delegates working in a diplomatic capacity in or on behalf of a colony, protectorate, etc. ΚΠ 1769 J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. I. 376 He..was appointed a resident commissioner at Edinburgh, to attend the parliament of Scotland; as the Scots had their resident commissioners at London, to attend the English parliament. 1839 S. Austral. Gaz. (Adelaide) 7 Nov. 2 In reference to those portions of land usually called ‘Green Slips’..the Resident Commissioner is of opinion that..no valid claims upon them exist. 1902 U.S. Laws & Statutes (1903) XXXII. i. 694 With the first meeting of the Philippine legislature..there shall be chosen, by the said legislature..two resident commissioners to the United States. 1962 J. C. Plano & M. Greenberg Amer. Polit. Dict. iii. 38 Resident commissioner, a delegate elected by the people of a territory to represent them in the House of Representatives. He may speak in the House and serve on committees, but he may not vote... Only Puerto Rico has a resident commissioner. 1979 Maclean's 11 June 10/1 After 12 years as the first resident commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Stuart Hodgson, on his final tour of his Arctic domain, couldn't resist making a few parting gestures: a half-day holiday for one settlement, a free coat of paint for a community hall. resident magistrate n. (frequently with capital initials) a magistrate resident in the place in which he or she serves; spec. one acting as a representative of the British government in a semi-independent state (now historical); abbreviated R.M. ΚΠ 1789 G. O. Paul Addr. Magistrates Glocester 2 Whilst I continue to be a resident Magistrate, I shall cheerfully take my share of those duties. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 200 A Marine Police..under the particular direction of the Superintending and Resident Magistrate. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. i. 10 You wouldn't meet a Christian out of doors, unless it was..a resident magistrate. 1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 40 I'm a Resident Magistrate now, you know. One of the biggest stations in the Territory. 1989 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 26 July 3/1 Daniel Mzandi was also ordered to receive three strokes of the cane by a Mombasa Resident Magistrate, Miss Jenifer Thuita, after being found guilty of theft. C2. Compounds of the noun. residents' association n. (also with capital initials) a group formed by members of a particular community to represent the community's or other local interests. ΚΠ 1876 Proc. Semi-centennial Celebration of Incorporation Town of Lowell 55 A book containing the papers that were read before the Old Residents' Association of this city or town.] 1879 Chicago Tribune 30 Nov. 16/1 Humboldt Park Residents' Association. 1908 Flatbush of To-day 99 The Residents' Association, formed in 1901, to take up with the proper officials certain local improvements, and to engage in such other activities as would tend to make South Midwood more attractive. 1995 M. Lawrence et al. Which? Guide Home Safety & Security ii. 144 If a residents' association or similar community group already exists, the Neighbourhood Watch scheme can build on that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.²1558adj.n.¹c1384
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