resetn.1
/ˈriːsɛt/, U.S. /ˈriˌsɛt/, Scottish English /ˈrisɛt/ Scottish in later use.† 1. † 2. The opportunity, advantage, privilege, or fact of being received or sheltered in a place; refuge, shelter. Chiefly in phrases to have (also get, take) reset. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).† 3. Scots Law. The act of receiving or harbouring a thief, criminal, or proscribed person, or the practice of receiving or harbouring such persons; reception or shelter given to another, spec. such a person. Cf. receipt n. 5. Obsolete.† 5. Chiefly Scottish. A person who receives, shelters, or harbours another, esp. a thief, criminal, or proscribed person (= resetter n. 1). Obsolete.† 6. Medicine. A prescription or remedy. Cf. receipt n. 12a. Obsolete. rare.
a. A place of reception, refuge, shelter, or accommodation; a home, haunt, usual residence or retreat. Cf. receipt n. 8a. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun]
church grithOE
to-flighta1300
reseta1325
refutec1350
succourc1380
warranta1400
refugec1405
bieldingc1440
bield?a1500
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge
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infleeinga1300
leinda1300
harbourc1300
reseta1325
harbouryc1325
refutec1350
asylec1384
receipta1393
refugec1405
port salut?1407
recept1423
porta1425
receptaclec1425
place (etc.) of refuge?a1439
retreat1481
port haven1509
stelling-place1513
refugie1515
retraict1550
safe haven1555
havening place1563
sanctuarya1568
safe harbour1569
sheepfold1579
subterfuge1593
arka1616
lopeholt1616
latebra1626
asylum1642
creep-hole1646
harbourage1651
reverticle1656
creeping-hole1665
a port in a (also the) storm1714
receptory1856
padded cell1876
funk-hole1900
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > usual haunt
reseta1325
hauntc1330
walka1425
neighbourhood1637
topic1650
office1699
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 113 (MED) Myn hows of orisouns..alosed ȝe him makeþ of þeoues recet.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2801 To recuuer sum resset þere we vs rest miȝt.
1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 6/2 Þt in all burowis townys..quhar comon passages ar þat þar be ordanyt hostilaris and resettis, haifande stabillis and chalmeris.
a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 3180 At euene whenne the sunne was set, Euery man drowȝ to hys recet.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 74 (MED) Alle Bestes drawyn to her resset [L. cauernas], and neddrys to her holys.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aiiv Resset couth thai find none Yt suld thair bute bene.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. vi. 190 I, Troian, for me vp in this feild, Ane new resset and wycht wallys sall beild.
1582 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 557 That the samin [houses] be not a resset to thevis and fugitives thairefter.
1610 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 304 Ail houssis..which ar the ressittis of the idill wagabundis and beggaris.
1701 Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. (1909) 31 That this parish might not be a resett for vagabonds and others.
b. A receptacle, a containing vessel. Also figurative. Cf. receipt n. 10. Obsolete. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun]
receivera1398
resetc1400
receipta1425
receptaclec1425
repository1485
receptorya1500
pot1503
container?1504
hold1517
containing?1541
continent?1541
receptable1566
nest1589
conceptacle1611
keep1617
house1625
reception1646
inholder1660
conceptaculum1691
penholder1815
holder1833
carrier1855
compactum1907
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 390 (MED) Freris ben ressett, and a swolowhe of symonye, of usure..and of thefftis.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xxxix. 22 As resettis [a1382 E.V. resceyuyng places; L. exceptoria] of watris in the word of his mouth.
c. Hunting. = receipt n. 9. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > place where fresh hounds posted
receiptc1400
relayc1425
release1490
reset1616
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xxv. 686 A quarter of a myle before them..you shall place your Reset, which would be a brace of greyhounds somewhat stronger than the former.
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c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8385 Sire reinaud..þen toun wuste bihinde, Þat hor men ȝif hii nede adde, recet miȝte vinde.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1021 In his pauillouns to haue recet, þiderward gan he drawe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5299 To mi lauerd yee com wit me..I sal askin yow sum recett [Gött. rescett].
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1067 Þer entrez non to take reset.
1450–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1450 §9. m. 3 The seid Isabell may have a writte..direct to the shirref of the shire where such recette or comfort shall be had.
a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 57 (MED) In al aduentures of battayle he was stydfaste, ful conynge, and tokyn of recette to al his hoste.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 297 Sailland to seik quhair tha mycht get resset, In other land sum duelling place to get.
1612 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 90 All lipper fokis sall be sequestrat and not sufferit to hawe recet in any publict company.
1685 Scot. Proclam. in London Gaz. No. 2032/3 To the end the said..Rebels may have no Reset, Harbour, Comfort or Refuge from any of the Subjects of this Our Realm.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > harbouring criminals or outlaws
flemensfirthc1020
resetc1485
receptment1620
intercommuning1646
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 232 Ony man yat gevis outhir resset or fauoure to goddis jnymyes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 719 Than thai..Accusyt hir sar of resset in that cas.
1527 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 556/2 His tresonable ressett and intercommoning with Alexander Forestar and his complicis.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxvi. 48 Our antecessoris..oft tymes baid þe hasard of þe weir, For þe resset and succouring of straingeris.
1603 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1884) 1st Ser. VI. 526 The ressett of the personis quha laitlie maist shamefullie and barbarouslie slew the Laird of Mellestanes.
1679 Royal Proclam. in Spirit of Popery (1680) 64 We have..prohibited the reset of these Murtherers.
1717 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 298 In several of the noted processes before the Justiciary, as in the case of torture, that of reset and converse.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 301 There is nae laws now about reset of intercommuned persons, as there was in the ill times o' the last Stuarts.
4. Scottish.† a. The act of receiving a thing; receipt of something. Cf. receipt n. 3a. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun]
latching1362
receivinga1382
receipt1421
reception1460
reset1487
receival1637
recipience1818
1487 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 366 Resat.
1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 174/1 Absenting of him fra þe takin and reset..of fyftj merkis.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. xiv. 95 Quhiddir the tovne of fidena Or þe toun of veos war mare ganand for resett of þare battell.
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1804) 229 The ambassador, eftir the ressett of this answere, returnit to the Regent, quhair they consultit togidder for a..remeid [not in ed. 1825].
b. Scots Law. The act or practice of receiving stolen or (subsequently) fraudulently acquired goods. Cf. receipt n. 6.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > receiving stolen goods
reset1501
1501 in J. A. Clyde Acta Dominorum Concilii (1943) 102 His hienes will nocht geif remissions..for..commone resset of thift.
1570–1 Court Bk. Broughton & Canongate (1937) 305 For ony allegit resset of ony gold money guddis or geir intromettit with ony wayis be hir.
a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iv. iv. §63 723 The crime of reset of theft consists either in harbouring the person of the thief after the goods are stolen, or in receiving or disposing of the goods.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 858 Reset of Theft; is the offence of receiving and keeping goods, knowing them to be stolen, and with an intention to conceal and withhold them from the owner.
1863 Glasgow Her. 15 Apr. Theft and Reset.
1904 A. M. Anderson Criminal Law Scotl. (ed. 2) 185 A person is guilty of reset who is privy to the retention of property known to have been dishonestly appropriated.
2003 S. Christie Introd. Scots Criminal Law xii. 207 The essence of the crime of reset is found in the knowing receipt, by someone other of the thief, of stolen goods. Section 51 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 extends the crime of reset so that it now covers property taken by theft, and also property taken by means of embezzlement or fraud.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > one who or that which gives refuge > one who gives refuge
reset1488
harbourer1548
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > harbouring criminals or outlaws > one who
resettera1325
receiver?a1400
reset1488
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l.17 This gentill man was full oft his Resett.
a1500 (?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) 1744 A burges that was the thefys reyset, At the townes end he them mett.
1552 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 130 Gif he beis fugitive and passis to his nychbour.., the resett of him sall pay the xx lib.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xi. 97 Lat all that fische be trapt in net, Was counsall, art, part, or reset,..Or ȝit with helping hand him met.
1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 501/1 That circuit courts of justiciaire also be establisched..yeirlie for tryell and punisching of all theiffis, sorneris, robberis, and ressetts þairof.
1709 in J. Maidment Analecta Scot. (1837) II. 240 John Young's wife has been a recet to them, so that since Munday I have not known where they have been.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. (at cited word) The Resett is as ill as the Thief.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > prescribed medicine
receipt1421
recipe1533
reset1564
recept1576
prescript1583
prescription1679
medication1849
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 13v If this purgyng wer not, we would clense and expulse with our resettes that which should serue our tourne well enough.
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resetn.2
/ˌriːˈsɛt/, U.S. /riˈsɛt/ΚΠ
1832 tr. F. von Adelung Hist. Sketch Sanskrit Lit. 218 Kansa Badha, a drama in seven acts... It is little more than a re-set of the tenth section of the Bhágavat Purana, which gives an account of the early life of the last incarnation of Vishnu.
2. Printing. †(a) Type that has been set up again (obsolete); (b) a text that has been reset. rare.
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1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Re-set, n.,..Among printers, matter reset.
1960 G. A. Glaister Encycl. Bk. 129 Facsimile reprint, a re-set of an old book in which the identical face and size of type are used.
3. The action or process of resetting something mechanical or physical; an instance of this. See also reset v.2 Compounds.
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1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Reset, the act of resetting.
1995 P. Woodward My Own Right Time xii. 99 During the reset, the drive is not so forceful as to overcome the friction.
2002 W. H. McDowell Hist. Res. 254 A book published with only small alterations would be classified as a reprint, whereas major corrections or the re-set of type would be regarded as a new edition.
2008 G. P. Smith Distributive Justice & New Med. i. 4 Even more opportunities for regenerative medicine will be charted when the insights from the clonal experiment with Dolly the sheep are realized first with a re-set of the genetic clock inside a cell and, subsequently, without the need for egg cells.
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resetv.1
/rᵻˈsɛt/, /ˈriːsɛt/, U.S. /rəˈsɛt/, /ˈriˌsɛt/, Scottish English /rᵻˈsɛt/, /ˈrisɛt/ Scottish in later use.† 1. transitive. To receive, harbour, or shelter (a person, esp. a thief, criminal, or proscribed person). Cf. receipt v.1 1. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (transitive)] > harbour criminal or outlaw
receiptc1300
resetc1300
recept1472
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter > specifically a person, esp. fugitive
receiptc1300
resetc1300
harbour?a1366
receivec1384
harbry14..
recept1472
receive1533
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 1226 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 141 Out of mine londe he is i-wend ase mi traitore... Þare-fore..ich bidde þe bi mine sonde þat þov ne suffri nouȝt þat he beo Irecetted [a1325 Corpus Cambr. irescettet] In þine londe.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4635 Þe kunde men of þis lond recetted were þere.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. 501 Ac he þat receyueþ oþer recetteþ hure ys recettor of gyle.
?1437 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 511/1 They herber and reset alle maner of myslyvers.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 232 He dois again the precept of the kirk..to fauour na resset the jnymyes of the faith.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 282 Schir Iohne mowbray is vith him gane, And war resettit [1489 Adv. resett] with the king.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 20 Preamble John Tayler felonsly and traytoursly resetted one Archbold Armestrong wich was proclaymed a Rebell.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. x. 81 That sic forloppin Troianis..Suld thankfully be resset in that ring.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1502/1 The mansleyers, spoylers, robbers, and violaters of the same truses and safe conductes..haue beene recetted..by diuerse of the kings liege people vpon the coastes.
1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 87 William Gordone in Nether-corsock reset the said runaway.
1669 R. Allestree 18 Serm. 14 It is..hopeful that men..will no more resett such traitors in their bosoms.
1681 Scot. Act in London Gaz. No. 1648/4 If any Man shall Resett..any Servant, Tennant or Cottar who is so put away, he shall be lyable to pay three years Fee to the Master who did put him away.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 158 Resetting Traitors, or those who lay at the Horn for treasonable Practices.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 186 You knew, that, as a loyal subject, you were prohibited to reset, supply, or intercommune with this attainted traitor.
1861 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 304 The list contains two classes. One, those who had been in arms at Bothwell Brigg; the other, those who had not been there, but had harboured or resetted rebels.
2. transitive. Scots Law. To receive (goods) from a thief or (subsequently) committer of fraud with intent to cover or profit by the crime. Also †intransitive. Cf. receipt v.1 2.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > receive stolen goods [verb (transitive)]
receivec1430
reset1565
receiptc1600
fence1610
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > receive or possess stolen goods [verb (intransitive)]
reset1817
fence1840
handle1977
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 336 We..esteme thai personis that avaciouslie [sic] resettis thair gudis takin in piracie na les culpabill.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Alexander II in Regiam Majestatem (1774) xxi. 336 Quha resets theift stollen fra anie man; he sall be estemed as ane common theif.
1625 in R. S. Ferguson & W. Nanson Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887) 280 She did recett Michaell Blaklocke sheats that were stollen.
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 51 Twa tinkler-gangs, here ither met,..To sorn, reeve, steal, lift, and reset.
1863 Glasgow Her. 15 Apr. A woman, named Mary Arnot, was convicted of having resetted the stolen property.
1967 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 1 Feb. Resetting 36 bottles of whisky or other spirits, which had been appropriated by theft.
2003 S. Christie Introd. Scots Criminal Law xii. 209 The exception only protects the wife of a resetter, and cannot be used by the husband whose wife has reset stolen goods and brought them into the matrimonial home.
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resetv.2
/ˌriːˈsɛt/, U.S. /riˈsɛt/ 1.
a. transitive. To set again in a different way or position.
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1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets ii. 29 If this Pope, Millions drawes with him to Hell, The next wise Pope may reset all things well.
1651 Life & Reigne King Charls 204 A most brutish resolution, and of purpose to reset all his Kingdoms on a light fier, in setting of Protestants against Protestants.
1748 B. Langley London Prices xvii. 324 Old Gally Tiles taken down and reset are worth but 3 d. per 4 Tiles.
1825 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. (ed. 2) 175 Of this edition..there were about twenty-fire copies struck off in a folio form—the press being re-set—with duplicate impressions of the plates coloured after the originals.
1882 H. S. Holland Logic & Life (1885) 268 The life of an entire people is shifting and resetting..its landmarks.
1987 M. Redhead Incompleteness, Nonlocality, & Realism (1989) ii. 51 This seems just to re-set the original question, transferred from S to A.
2003 M. Miles & T. Hall Urban Futures 195 Upheavals re-set patterns in ways beyond prediction.
b. transitive. To fix (a rate, price, value, etc.) at a new or different level.
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1850 Minutes of Evid. Episcopal Revenues Comm. 139 in Parl. Papers XX. 45 A letter is addressed to the lessee, stating that the fine will be reset unless the old terms are immediately complied with, which is usually done.
1935 Hawaii Senate Jrnl. 3 Apr. 525 The actuary shall reset the rate per centum payment on account of the accrued liability of territorial employees.
1964 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 46 162/2 Following these rules, the rate may be reset as often as is desirable, analogously to the period analysis.
1973 Bell Jrnl. Econ. & Managem. Sci. 4 59 Once the regulators set the price for the firm's output, the company must meet demand at that price until..the regulators, if they see fit, reset the price.
2000 Independent on Sunday 30 Jan. (Real Life section) 3/2 However retailers are starting to re-set their in-store floor limits—(the maximum transaction value that can be authorised without outside intervention).
c. transitive. To establish (standards, priorities, etc.) differently.
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1903 Public Opinion 7 Apr. 420/2 The country is called upon now, if ever it will be, to reset the standards of official conduct.
1969 Art Educ. 22 ii. 11/3 My main concern, then, is to reset the many priorities in an elementary program.
1997 Icon Thoughtstyle Mag. Apr. 109/1 He now has to reset his goals and become something more than a stubborn, complicated defendant.
2000 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. iii. 16/6 ‘We had to reset their expectations,’ said Mr. Dintersmith, adding that in general CRVelocity [sc. a venture-capital firm] would not become a Sherpa to companies.
2. transitive. Horticulture. To plant again, replant.
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1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 61 In its [sc. the olive tree's] transplantation you must take up as much of the soyle with its roots, as you can possible, and when you reset it, give it the like scitution for Coast and Quarter that it had before.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 85 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Soon after the Gothick Barbarity repullulated again, and was re-set.
1796 J. Fox Gen. View Agric. Glamorgan 48 It is also recommended, to make a mark which side of the tree stood toward the sun, that the tree may be reset in the same direction.
1836 Farmers' Reg. Nov. 401/2 The seedlings remaining, ought however, to he raised up;..and the plants be re-set in regular order and distances.
1852 Mag. Hort. May 240 Herbaceous Plants,of all kinds, should be re-set, when they have been standing three or four years.
1915 E. J. Wickson Calif. Garden-Flowers, Shrubs, Trees & Vines iii. xii. 111 Delphiniums, if they are dormant and not indulging in fall bloom, can be re-set if more plants are desired.
2002 W. Rouse in Gardening in Containers (Fine Gardening Design Guides) ii. 76/2 Then re-set plants from the preceding season that you want to keep in the container and add new ones.
3. transitive. To replace (esp. a gemstone) in a (former or new) setting.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > set or stud (something) with gems [verb (transitive)] > inlay or set (gems) > replace in setting
reset1655
new-set1709
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 228 Elizabeth..finding so fair a flower..fallen out of Her Crown, was careful quickly to gather it up again, and get it re-sett therein.
1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento Pref. sig. a4 For a time they fall out of their Collets.., and [are] worth nothing 'till..they are again reset in their proper places.
1803 B. Greatheed Jrnl. 18 Jan. (1953) iii.30 The Jewelers came to receive orders about resetting N—s ear rings.
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford II. vii. 196 A stray trinket or two—not of sufficient worth to be re-set.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 371/2 The hair can be again reset as firmly as it was before [etc.].
1955 Pop. Sci. Dec. 24/2 (advt.) Every diamond is re-set in a luxurious new mounting.
2006 P. Courtney Golden Handcuffs xxxvi. 262 I once took mine [sc. a necklace] to the jewellers to have it re-set, and I asked him, ‘How can I be sure that the diamond I'm handing you now is the same as the one you give me back in a week?’
4. transitive. Printing. To set up the type for again; to reassemble (type) for printing.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (transitive)] > again
reset1682
replate1919
1682 G. Burnet Answer Animadversions 15 Every Body knows that Titles we reset before Books or Chapters some Ages after they were written.
1804 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Dec. 654/2 The expence of a solid page does not exceed that of re-setting it in moveable types.
1840 Lancet 13 June 411/1 The only part of the book which can be called ‘new’, is the title-page, which..is re-set, with a new line ‘second edition’.
1896 T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc.: Printing (new ed.) II. 420 The compositor..undertook to reset this book in modern style.
1906 E. G. Duff Printers, Stationers, & Bookbinders of Westm. & London from 1476 to 1535 ii. v. 137 As labour was very cheap they preferred to reset the type for small editions.
1940 A. B. Baxter Men, Martyrs, & Mountebanks iii. 42 When the thing came out they had not bothered even to reset the type.
2002 C. Hurst Invisible Art i. 14 It is possible to incorporate, say, a new chapter and other alterations, if sufficiently localised, without re-setting the whole book.
5. transitive. To transfer to or rewrite for a different setting. Also: to set to different music.
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1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 171 The plays of Shakespeare might be reset.
1807 Universal Mag. June 559/2 If there happens to be a very popular song,..they must needs reset them to music.
1858 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 3 July 106/2 Herr Hiller, however, has hardly had a fair chance in his attempt to re-set ‘Saul’.
1922 M. Summers Shakespeare Adaptations Introd. p. xlviii In 1690 the Shadwell opera, with various additions, was wholly re-set by Henry Purcell.
1948 Shakespeare Surv. 1 113/1 He then gave the play [sc. Hamlet], re-costumed and re-set, in New York in 1945-6.
1989 G. Sadler in J. H. Heyer et al. J.-B. Lully & Mus. French Baroque 269 This general unwillingness to re-use vocal numbers is connected with the marked reluctance in France to re-set existing libretti.
2004 S. Meinig Witnessing Past ii. iv. 241 André Brink's novel, re-set in eighteenth century South Africa, re-writes the story by framing it with an analysis of the historical records.
6. transitive. Surgery. To set (a broken bone or limb), esp. for a second or further time.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > set bones or dislocations > again
reset1804
1804 M. Farrell tr. A. Richerand Boyer's Lect. Dis. Bones I. xiv. 230 This derangement..is remedied by resetting the fracture every day [Fr. en pratiquant chaque jour la réduction].
1821 C. Lloyd Mem. Life & Writings V. Alfieri vii. 58 Surgical assistance was immediately procured, the bones were re-set, and the patient ordered to remain in bed.
1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 114 We succeeded in getting the limb reset, and the wound properly attended to.
1943 V. Sackville-West Eagle & Dove i. xv. 89 Her left arm..had had to be re-broken and re-set most painfully several times.
1969 C. Potok Promise (1971) vi. 114 The third and fourth fingers of his right hand were faintly misshapen, as if they had been broken at one time and poorly reset.
2003 Independent 22 Aug. 7/8 Joanna..had recently come out of hospital in a wheelchair, having had to have both her legs broken and reset as part of the treatment.
7. transitive. To put a new edge on; to sharpen again.
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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > sharpen (a thing) [verb (transitive)] > again
regrind1660
reset1823
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV liii. 141 Reset it; shave more smoothly.
1885 Lock's Worksh. Rec. Gen. Index Resetting bandsaws.
1937 Pop. Mech. Oct. 625/1 When you finish with this treatment, the blade must be re-set, gummed and carefully filed.
1986 B. Macdonald Pract. Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers I. iv. 189 The pruners must be dismantled and the blade re-set.
8. transitive. To set up or fix in the proper position or order again; to restore to the original position or arrangement.
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the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > again
reorder1579
replume1704
reassort1817
reset1829
re-sort1836
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > again or in previous position
restorec1425
repone?1440
repose?1440
remise1481
replace1587
recollocate1598
reimplace1611
to put backa1625
refit1649
retroduce1659
relodge1660
reposit1800
reship1804
reshift1822
reset1829
1829 J. Elmes Pract. Treat. Dilapidations (ed. 3) App. p. lxvi Take down and re-set the chimney-pots.
1831 Pearl (Philadelphia) 3 105 The supper table was cleared away and then re-set exactly as before for the young men.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 35 Such an occurrence will create the trouble to the shepherd of resetting the whole net.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 114 The sail can be reset.
1880 W. Carnegie Pract. Trapping 8 Should they be rained upon, they will all require re-setting or re-covering.
1925 H. H. Richardson Fortunes Richard Mahony II. x. 247 His mind..felt like a child's puzzle that had been rudely jolted into hundreds of pieces, and had now all to be re-set.
1943 G. Wernham tr. ‘I. de Lautréamont’ Maldoror vi. 263 The perpetual rat-trap, re-set each time by the trapped animal.
1998 R. Taylor in L. E. Beattie Savory Memories 131 After every meal, she re-set the table, placing plates and silverware as well as condiments on the small kitchen table or the ‘company’ table in the dining room.
2003 D. Danenberg How to Restore your Wooden Runabout xii. 189/1 Often, it is necessary to re-set these screws after some sculpting has been done.
9.
a. transitive. To cause (a device) to return to a former state, esp. a condition of readiness. Also reflexive: = sense 9c.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)]
reversea1393
converta1425
undo1426
unmakec1450
recommencea1513
unweave1542
mismake1575
resubstantiate1584
unspin1587
remit1591
retrievea1596
remetamorphose1598
remorphize1603
reconvert1609
unlive1621
unravel1637
relapse1652
to bring about1680
uncoin1833
unpay1842
reset1846
revert1856
unweb1882
1846 U.S. Patent 4,569 1/1 The moment the shafts are drawn forward, the brake resets itself in its proper position.
1856 U.S. Patent 15,480 1/2 As the train passes the apparatus is re-set.
1878 J. H. Batty How to Hunt & Trap xxxi. 162 It resets itself when the wire door falls behind a rat.
1884 Appleton's Cycl. Mech. II. 768 The mechanism makes it compulsory that the outdoor starting signal shall be reset to danger behind every train.
1919 R. Mordin Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange iii. 64 When the release magnet armature knocks the double dog out of engagement with the shaft it also..re-sets the side switch.
1977 D. Anthony Stud Game xxv. 160 I..reset the burglar alarm.
1991 Which? Nov. 654/3 You reset the counter to zero at any point, and the video will stop (or start playing) at that point when rewinding.
2002 N. Walker Blackbox (2003) 89 The answermachine pipped an acknowledgement and re-set itself. ‘Messages received—two.’
b. transitive. Computing. To return (a counting device) to a specified value, esp. zero; to set (a binary cell) to zero. Also reflexive.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > reset
reset1944
1944 U.S. Patent 2,348,141 4/2 When this system is utilized it is only necessary to re-set the selector discs to 0 positions, once at the end of each cycle of the setting drum.
1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines iii. 47 If the wheels are left in engagement on the return stroke they are reset to the previous values.
1987 J. Millman & A. Grabel Microelectronics (ed. 2) viii. 331 A chain of n binaries will count up to the number 2n before it resets itself into its original state.
2000 P. Scherz Pract. Electronics for Inventors ix. 271 Pin 6... Input to the upper comparator, which is used to reset the flip-flop.
c. intransitive. Of a device: to return to an initial state.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > revert [verb (intransitive)] > to former state or condition
to turn againc1325
returnc1405
resorta1438
revert?a1513
to pass and repass1548
refall1570
relapse1593
unhappen1805
react1841
involute1904
relax1934
reset1946
1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) iv. 234 The punch counter resets and the code number is added into the punch counter.
1971 Gloss. Electrotechnical, Power Terms (B.S.I.) i. iii. 13 A relay resets when it returns to its initial position.
1980 Sci. Amer. May 49/1 When both currents are removed, the switched junction automatically resets, closing the loop.
2001 Focus Oct. 38/3 Receipt of the code causes an onboard ‘odometer’, or wheel-turn counter, to reset to zero.
10. intransitive. To reassume a fixed position or expression; to become fixed or hard again.
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1895 W. J. Locke At Gate of Samaria xvi. 194 She..noticed a look upon Thornton's face,—the after-light, as it were, of a sneer, before the features had time to reset.
1970 E. David French Provinc. Cooking (rev. ed.) 348 The jelly, heated until it is just melted, should be poured over the meat when it is quite cold but before it starts to re-set.
1982 J. James Chartres iii. 43 They have all settled and moved over the years, and these mortars have cracked easily, and then proceeded to re-set in the new position.
11. transitive. Hairdressing. To set (hair) into the required style again.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > set > again
reset1932
1932 E. Bowen To North xii. 120 She..had had, since lunch, her hair shampooed and re-set.
1965 Ebony Aug. 137/2 (advt.) It's the new wig... It can be styled and re-set.
Compounds
Used attributively to denote a component or function concerned with resetting, as reset button, reset switch. Also figurative.
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1905 Multiple-unit Syst. 50 Closing the circuit-breaker reset switch located alongside the master controller.
1910 Jrnl. Cleveland Engin. Soc. 3 55 When the pressure is taken off the reset button, sufficient current flows..to maintain the circuit breaker switch in the closed position.
1951 M. V. Wilkes et al. Prepar. Programs for Electronic Digital Computer vii. 66 The machine is restarted by the reset button.
1975 Science 12 Dec. 1120/1 A reset key returns all channels to zero.
1999 Brewing & Distilling Internat. Apr. 36/3 Additional user-selectable features include..an output reset function.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 30 June 82/1 The farm boy disappears into the night and the movie suddenly hits the reset button.
Derivatives
reˈsetting n.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > recomposing
resetting1804
recomposition1897
1804 M. Farrell tr. A. Boyer Lect. Dis. Bones II. Index 311 Method of Foubert; by continual resetting.
1817 Times 24 Oct. 1/5 (advt.) Should a purchaser prefer cockles, they are on the premises, complete, and ready for resetting.
1845 Amer. Agriculturist Apr. 119/2 If you have late plants in consequence of re-setting, break them low, and they will grow faster and ripen sooner for it.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. xxii. 471 The resettings by which the same superficies is repeated.
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 74 What advantage does this method present over a resetting of the page in the usual manner?
1882 Spons' Encycl. at Leather The next step is re-setting (retenage)... This is another setting out with the sleeker.
1897 Daily News 3 May 8/5 A publication..containing excellent new tunes and re-settings.
1933 G. C. Jell Master Builders Opera (1970) 42 A resetting of his [sc. Weber's] boyhood opera Das Waldmädchen..seems to have been the one thing undertaken on which any progress was made.
1980 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 240. 67 (caption) A part of the eastern colonnade of the atrium of the West Church, after the resetting of columns.
2002 L. A. Rickels Nazi Psychoanal. 181 The first battlefields covered with the psychological casualties of war, those of the Russo-Japanese War, were also the first modern resettings of mine warfare.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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