restiveadj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛstɪv/, U.S.

/ˈrɛstɪv/

Forms: 1500s restyue, 1500s–1600s restiue, 1500s– restive.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: restiff adj.

Etymology: Alteration of restiff adj., with remodelling of the ending after -ive suffix.

1. Characterized by erratic or adverse behaviour arising from discontent, disquiet, etc. Cf. restiff adj. 1a.In 19th-cent. examples it is frequently difficult to tell whether restlessness (as in the emergent sense 1c) or recalcitrance is the primary sense of the word.

a. Of a horse: refusing to go forward; stubbornly standing still; obstinately moving backwards or to the side when being driven or ridden; resisting control, intractable, refractory. Now rare or merged in sense 1c.In quot. 1549 in figurative context, of a person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive

restiffc1390

restyc1465

stiff-necked1526

hard-headed?1532

restive1549

rusty1555

hard-mouthed1565

unwayed1607

haunty1657

nappy1924

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Miii Who is he so blunt and restiue, that could not with theyr pickant spurres be quickened?

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding iii. xii. sig. C.ii^v To correct a restiue horse by teynge a cord with a riding knot unto the horses stones, whiche corde passed under his bely unto the riders right hande, holdinge the same, and strayninge it when nede did require.

1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes xi. §vii. 892 Like restiue wel-fed iades which spurne against their feeder.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Restive or Resty.., stubborn, drawing backwards, that will not go forward.

1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 66 The horses us'd thereto will you obey: To me, it may be, they will restive stand.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A restive Horse is a rebellious, refractory, ill-broken Horse; which only goes where it will, and when it will.

1756 World 16 Dec. 1246 I fear he has not been accustomed to drive a set so restive as mine are, especially in bad roads.

a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 279 The mind advances in its train of thought, as a restive colt proceeds on the road in which you wish to guide him.

1896 Law Times 100 508/1 His lordship's horse became restive, and attempted to throw its rider.

1903 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/3 Stalwart Punjabis..hand out bags of stores,..or manhandle a fractious, restive animal.

b. Of a person or (occasionally) a thing: stubbornly refusing to advance; resisting control, intractable, refractory, unmanageable; resistant to someone or something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant

unbuxoma1250

unbowsomec1290

sturdy13..

wildc1350

stubbornc1386

unbaina1400

stoutc1410

kimeta1450

staffish?a1513

untractable1538

intractable1545

sullen1577

restiff1578

indocile1603

resty1603

hot-mouthed1609

immorigerous1623

intractive1623

uncompliable1626

restivea1628

non-complying1649

uncompliant1659

incompliant1706

unobliging1707

recalcitrant1797

unbiddable1825

stocky1836

recalcitrary1861

calcitrant1866

non-cooperative1867

recalcitrating1870

ropeable1870

non-cooperating1895

bolshie1918

a1628 F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady in Certaine Wks. (1633) v. 286 Since I haue shewed you by reason, that Obedience is iust, and necessary; by example that it is possible; be not restiue in their weake stubburnnesse; that will either keepe, or lose all.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. x The Arch-Angel..when Discord was restive..has the Whip-hand of her, Drags her out with many stripes.

1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision Pref. 3 'Tis true such Matter is Restive, Refractory and Unpolishable Enough.

1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) 175 Never is restive to th' Almighty's Laws.

1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One v. 75 Nay, don't be restive, Miss.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 39 He proved as ready a scholar as he had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor.

1841 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. July 82 Some patients are very restive under the rigid abstinence from food to which for some days they must be subjected.

1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 10 He turned restive at the least attempt at coercion.

1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 69 The child was more restive, and her stomach seemed likely to reject the draught.

1906 W. F. Butler Lombard Communes ix. 330 The Guelf party in Milan began to show themselves restive to the Papal authority.

1922 B. King Dust Flower xxvi. 337 She liked seeing him as he was, helpless, inert, with no power of enraging her by being restive to her will.

c. Unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction, fidgety, restless; uneasy. Also: (in extended use) of an activity. Cf. restiff adj. 1b. (Now the usual sense.)Some commentators have objected to this usage (see Merriam-Webster's Dict. Eng. Usage (1994) 817).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > restlessness > [adjective] > moving restlessly

figent1598

fidgeting1672

fidgety1736

fikey1823

restive1846

jiggy1896

1846 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 10 July 101/1 We have seen a meeting..become quiet, attentive, enthusiastic, as he proceeded with his address, which had been before impatient and unmanageable; we have never seen an audience become listless and restive under him.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. viii. 117 Aunt Chloe..was getting rather restive; the merriment of the evening being to her somewhat after the Scripture comparison—like ‘vinegar upon nitre’.

1868 R. G. White in Galaxy Sept. vi. 379 A restive horse is a horse that balks; but horses that are restless are frequently called restive.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xv. 237 Such music is not for the piano, and her audience began to get restive.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. v, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 637 His inability to follow so much of her restive search.

1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring xx. 266 As he got better he was increasingly short with her, increasingly restive under her care.

1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xi. 121 It needs exercise, anyhow. It was very restive in the night; stamping and pawing and crying out.

1992 U.S. News & World Rep. 9 Mar. 22/1 Boys are typically more restive and unruly in class.

2007 Canberra Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. b08 In the face of restive protest from powerless workers.

†2. Inclined to rest or remain still; inactive, inert. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > habitually or naturally

restive1554

unactive1638

inert1647

1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 45 They gape to obtaine quiet to the restyue carcase and lucre to them selues.

1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. D2 What great imployment with the stirring mettald spirits, what perpetuall quiet with heavy and restive bodies.

a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 174 in Wks. (1640) III One of our greatest Poets..went to Endenburgh o' foot, and came backe; marry he has beene restive..ever since, for we have had nothing from him.

1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 136 Notwithstanding their being thus sluggish and dull and restive in the Day-time, yet when Moon-shiny nights come, they are all Life and Activity.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. viii. 111 That positive, confident restive Temper, which Virtue infused into Man, was a perpetual Clog to publick Business.

1757 D. Hume Passions i, in Four Diss. 124 The imagination is extremely quick and agile; but the passions, in comparison, are slow and restive.

1833 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 353 Of my old friends, I have lived to see two knighted: one made a judge, another in a fair way to it. Why am I restive?

1874 Literary & Ling. Notes & Queries Apr. 481 All..give a disposition to stand still, to rest, as the meaning of restive.

†3. Persistent, obstinate, settled, or fixed in an opinion or course of action. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective]

starkOE

moodyOE

stithc1000

stidyc1175

stallc1275

harda1382

stubbornc1386

obstinate?1387

throa1400

hard nolleda1425

obstinant?a1425

pertinacec1425

stablec1440

dour1488

unresigned1497

difficultc1503

hard-necked1530

pertinatec1534

obstacle1535

stout-stomached1549

hard-faced1567

stunt1581

hard-headed1583

pertinacious1583

stuntly1583

peremptory1589

stomachous1590

mulish1600

stomachful1600

obstined1606

restive1633

obstinacious1649

opinionated1649

tenacious1656

iron-sided1659

sturdy1664

cat-witted1672

obstinated1672

unyielding1677

ruggish1688

bullet-headed1699

tough1780

pelsy1785

stupid1788

hard-set1818

thick and thin1822

stuntya1825

rigwiddie1826

indomitable1830

recalcitrant1830

set1848

mule-headed1870

muley1871

capitose1881

hard-nosed1917

tight1928

1633 Certaine Learned & Elegant Wks. 286 Be not restive in their weake stubburnness that will either keepe or lose all.

1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 56 Every one being restive in his opinion, there can nothing infallibly, as to the time, be concluded.

1783 J. Reynolds Notes in W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 72 He will fall into the habit of acquiescing in the partial opinions of a few; he will grow restive in his own.

1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xv. 444 Because you discover him to be a little restive in the last agonies of his liberty, you are eager..to cast him and his fortune away.

1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 69 The world is so restive in its evil conditions, and ill-disposed towards the..ministers of reformation.

4. Of an action, etc.: characterized by unwillingness or resistance to control. Cf. restiff adj. 4. Obsolete or merged in sense 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adjective] > characterized by unwillingness (of actions, etc.)

grudged1549

unloath1607

unwilling?1617

reluctant1648

restive1652

uncheerfula1684

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant > of actions, conduct, or character

restya1586

rusty1625

restive1652

restiff1678

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. xvii. 3 Send Care to dead Sea of Phlegmattick Age; Ride without Bit your restive Rage.

1655 E. Waterhouse Modest Disc. Piety, Charity & Policy 120 Moses not out of restive renitency but ingenious humility, abaseth himself.

?1701 tr. G. della Casa Galateus 33 A Refractory Person, is just the same thing with a hard-mouth'd and kicking Horse. Now how fit this restive Temper is to gain other Peoples respect and favour, you may..judge.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. vii. 124 He..then resturned to observe how I endured the goad, laugh at my restive antics.

1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 233 At the time of leaving off fires, to which you have given a restive consent.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ix. 233 The outward man yielded a reluctant and restive compliance.

1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 291 The hooks are liable to prick the lids..in the restive motions of some patients.

1867 Bulwark, or, Reformation Jrnl. 2 Sept. 58 Indeed, even in the recent Parliament, there were indications of a restive spirit of resistance.

Phrases

to run restive: to run wild or out of control; to behave in an unmanageable or uncontrollable manner; to become intractable and rebellious. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1746 J. Downes Def. of Set or Prescribed Forms Prayer 67 Which if rapidly or unjudiciously pronounced, (say you, or if the Preacher runs restive, or on the wrong Side the Post, say I), becomes disagreeable, confus'd, and often unintelligible.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xcix. 58 If he must fain sweep o'er the etherial plain, And Pegasus runs restive in his ‘waggon’, Could he not beg the loan of Charles's Wain?

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lix. 32 It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive.

1830 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 135 In returning home Mrs. Bryan's horses ran restive against the gate, broke the pole, and threw off the postillion.

1876 W. S. Landor Wks. II. 287 Ay, envy of superiority made the angels kick & run restive.

1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way.

1940 Mod. Lang. Rev. 35 449 Pegasus, it is true, generally ‘runs restive’ with our poet.

Derivatives

ˈrestively adv. in a restive manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adverb] > intractably or recalcitrantly

unbuxomly1390

sturdily1538

restily1611

restively1650

intractably1846

recalcitrantly1912

1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 156 Children being at first bred up restively, acquire a habit thereby, and cannot afterwards..change their course, their Joynts and Limbs are so stiff and unweildly.

1732 C. Hornby Let. Rector of Fryerning 20 Those who ought to be shining Lights and leading Examples,..on the contrary, restively struggle to slip the Collar, and leave the whole Load both of Poor and Parson upon the necks of their Parishioners.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xx. 329 Gentlemen restively imprisoned in dress coats and white gloves.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xliii. 153 [She] obeyed—not with her heart, but restively, like an ill-bred dog or mule.

1907 S. Atlantic Q. Jan. 29 The people were stirring restively.

1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. xviii. 207 Andrew..twisted restively in her hands as she pinned a shawl around.

1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) xxx. 445 He tossed and turned restively, unable to shut out the sounds ricocheting about in his head.

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

单词	restive
释义	restiveadj. Brit. /ˈrɛstɪv/, U.S. /ˈrɛstɪv/ Forms: 1500s restyue, 1500s–1600s restiue, 1500s– restive. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: restiff adj. Etymology: Alteration of restiff adj., with remodelling of the ending after -ive suffix. 1. Characterized by erratic or adverse behaviour arising from discontent, disquiet, etc. Cf. restiff adj. 1a.In 19th-cent. examples it is frequently difficult to tell whether restlessness (as in the emergent sense 1c) or recalcitrance is the primary sense of the word. a. Of a horse: refusing to go forward; stubbornly standing still; obstinately moving backwards or to the side when being driven or ridden; resisting control, intractable, refractory. Now rare or merged in sense 1c.In quot. 1549 in figurative context, of a person. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive restiffc1390 restyc1465 stiff-necked1526 hard-headed?1532 restive1549 rusty1555 hard-mouthed1565 unwayed1607 haunty1657 nappy1924 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Miii Who is he so blunt and restiue, that could not with theyr pickant spurres be quickened? ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding iii. xii. sig. C.ii^v To correct a restiue horse by teynge a cord with a riding knot unto the horses stones, whiche corde passed under his bely unto the riders right hande, holdinge the same, and strayninge it when nede did require. 1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes xi. §vii. 892 Like restiue wel-fed iades which spurne against their feeder. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Restive or Resty.., stubborn, drawing backwards, that will not go forward. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 66 The horses us'd thereto will you obey: To me, it may be, they will restive stand. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A restive Horse is a rebellious, refractory, ill-broken Horse; which only goes where it will, and when it will. 1756 World 16 Dec. 1246 I fear he has not been accustomed to drive a set so restive as mine are, especially in bad roads. a1845 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 279 The mind advances in its train of thought, as a restive colt proceeds on the road in which you wish to guide him. 1896 Law Times 100 508/1 His lordship's horse became restive, and attempted to throw its rider. 1903 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/3 Stalwart Punjabis..hand out bags of stores,..or manhandle a fractious, restive animal. b. Of a person or (occasionally) a thing: stubbornly refusing to advance; resisting control, intractable, refractory, unmanageable; resistant to someone or something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant unbuxoma1250 unbowsomec1290 sturdy13.. wildc1350 stubbornc1386 unbaina1400 stoutc1410 kimeta1450 staffish?a1513 untractable1538 intractable1545 sullen1577 restiff1578 indocile1603 resty1603 hot-mouthed1609 immorigerous1623 intractive1623 uncompliable1626 restivea1628 non-complying1649 uncompliant1659 incompliant1706 unobliging1707 recalcitrant1797 unbiddable1825 stocky1836 recalcitrary1861 calcitrant1866 non-cooperative1867 recalcitrating1870 ropeable1870 non-cooperating1895 bolshie1918 a1628 F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady in Certaine Wks. (1633) v. 286 Since I haue shewed you by reason, that Obedience is iust, and necessary; by example that it is possible; be not restiue in their weake stubburnnesse; that will either keepe, or lose all. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. x The Arch-Angel..when Discord was restive..has the Whip-hand of her, Drags her out with many stripes. 1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision Pref. 3 'Tis true such Matter is Restive, Refractory and Unpolishable Enough. 1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) 175 Never is restive to th' Almighty's Laws. 1784 H. Cowley More Ways than One v. 75 Nay, don't be restive, Miss. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. iii. 39 He proved as ready a scholar as he had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor. 1841 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. July 82 Some patients are very restive under the rigid abstinence from food to which for some days they must be subjected. 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 10 He turned restive at the least attempt at coercion. 1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 69 The child was more restive, and her stomach seemed likely to reject the draught. 1906 W. F. Butler Lombard Communes ix. 330 The Guelf party in Milan began to show themselves restive to the Papal authority. 1922 B. King Dust Flower xxvi. 337 She liked seeing him as he was, helpless, inert, with no power of enraging her by being restive to her will. c. Unable to remain still, silent, or submissive, especially because of boredom or dissatisfaction, fidgety, restless; uneasy. Also: (in extended use) of an activity. Cf. restiff adj. 1b. (Now the usual sense.)Some commentators have objected to this usage (see Merriam-Webster's Dict. Eng. Usage (1994) 817). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > restlessness > [adjective] > moving restlessly figent1598 fidgeting1672 fidgety1736 fikey1823 restive1846 jiggy1896 1846 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 10 July 101/1 We have seen a meeting..become quiet, attentive, enthusiastic, as he proceeded with his address, which had been before impatient and unmanageable; we have never seen an audience become listless and restive under him. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. viii. 117 Aunt Chloe..was getting rather restive; the merriment of the evening being to her somewhat after the Scripture comparison—like ‘vinegar upon nitre’. 1868 R. G. White in Galaxy Sept. vi. 379 A restive horse is a horse that balks; but horses that are restless are frequently called restive. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xv. 237 Such music is not for the piano, and her audience began to get restive. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. v, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 637 His inability to follow so much of her restive search. 1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring xx. 266 As he got better he was increasingly short with her, increasingly restive under her care. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xi. 121 It needs exercise, anyhow. It was very restive in the night; stamping and pawing and crying out. 1992 U.S. News & World Rep. 9 Mar. 22/1 Boys are typically more restive and unruly in class. 2007 Canberra Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. b08 In the face of restive protest from powerless workers. †2. Inclined to rest or remain still; inactive, inert. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > habitually or naturally restive1554 unactive1638 inert1647 1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion f. 45 They gape to obtaine quiet to the restyue carcase and lucre to them selues. 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. D2 What great imployment with the stirring mettald spirits, what perpetuall quiet with heavy and restive bodies. a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 174 in Wks. (1640) III One of our greatest Poets..went to Endenburgh o' foot, and came backe; marry he has beene restive..ever since, for we have had nothing from him. 1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 136 Notwithstanding their being thus sluggish and dull and restive in the Day-time, yet when Moon-shiny nights come, they are all Life and Activity. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. viii. 111 That positive, confident restive Temper, which Virtue infused into Man, was a perpetual Clog to publick Business. 1757 D. Hume Passions i, in Four Diss. 124 The imagination is extremely quick and agile; but the passions, in comparison, are slow and restive. 1833 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 353 Of my old friends, I have lived to see two knighted: one made a judge, another in a fair way to it. Why am I restive? 1874 Literary & Ling. Notes & Queries Apr. 481 All..give a disposition to stand still, to rest, as the meaning of restive. †3. Persistent, obstinate, settled, or fixed in an opinion or course of action. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] starkOE moodyOE stithc1000 stidyc1175 stallc1275 harda1382 stubbornc1386 obstinate?1387 throa1400 hard nolleda1425 obstinant?a1425 pertinacec1425 stablec1440 dour1488 unresigned1497 difficultc1503 hard-necked1530 pertinatec1534 obstacle1535 stout-stomached1549 hard-faced1567 stunt1581 hard-headed1583 pertinacious1583 stuntly1583 peremptory1589 stomachous1590 mulish1600 stomachful1600 obstined1606 restive1633 obstinacious1649 opinionated1649 tenacious1656 iron-sided1659 sturdy1664 cat-witted1672 obstinated1672 unyielding1677 ruggish1688 bullet-headed1699 tough1780 pelsy1785 stupid1788 hard-set1818 thick and thin1822 stuntya1825 rigwiddie1826 indomitable1830 recalcitrant1830 set1848 mule-headed1870 muley1871 capitose1881 hard-nosed1917 tight1928 1633 Certaine Learned & Elegant Wks. 286 Be not restive in their weake stubburnness that will either keepe or lose all. 1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 56 Every one being restive in his opinion, there can nothing infallibly, as to the time, be concluded. 1783 J. Reynolds Notes in W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 72 He will fall into the habit of acquiescing in the partial opinions of a few; he will grow restive in his own. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xv. 444 Because you discover him to be a little restive in the last agonies of his liberty, you are eager..to cast him and his fortune away. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 69 The world is so restive in its evil conditions, and ill-disposed towards the..ministers of reformation. 4. Of an action, etc.: characterized by unwillingness or resistance to control. Cf. restiff adj. 4. Obsolete or merged in sense 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > [adjective] > characterized by unwillingness (of actions, etc.) grudged1549 unloath1607 unwilling?1617 reluctant1648 restive1652 uncheerfula1684 society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant > of actions, conduct, or character restya1586 rusty1625 restive1652 restiff1678 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila i. xvii. 3 Send Care to dead Sea of Phlegmattick Age; Ride without Bit your restive Rage. 1655 E. Waterhouse Modest Disc. Piety, Charity & Policy 120 Moses not out of restive renitency but ingenious humility, abaseth himself. ?1701 tr. G. della Casa Galateus 33 A Refractory Person, is just the same thing with a hard-mouth'd and kicking Horse. Now how fit this restive Temper is to gain other Peoples respect and favour, you may..judge. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor III. vii. 124 He..then resturned to observe how I endured the goad, laugh at my restive antics. 1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 233 At the time of leaving off fires, to which you have given a restive consent. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ix. 233 The outward man yielded a reluctant and restive compliance. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 291 The hooks are liable to prick the lids..in the restive motions of some patients. 1867 Bulwark, or, Reformation Jrnl. 2 Sept. 58 Indeed, even in the recent Parliament, there were indications of a restive spirit of resistance. Phrases to run restive: to run wild or out of control; to behave in an unmanageable or uncontrollable manner; to become intractable and rebellious. Now rare. ΚΠ 1746 J. Downes Def. of Set or Prescribed Forms Prayer 67 Which if rapidly or unjudiciously pronounced, (say you, or if the Preacher runs restive, or on the wrong Side the Post, say I), becomes disagreeable, confus'd, and often unintelligible. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xcix. 58 If he must fain sweep o'er the etherial plain, And Pegasus runs restive in his ‘waggon’, Could he not beg the loan of Charles's Wain? 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lix. 32 It is a hard although a common case To find our children running restive. 1830 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 135 In returning home Mrs. Bryan's horses ran restive against the gate, broke the pole, and threw off the postillion. 1876 W. S. Landor Wks. II. 287 Ay, envy of superiority made the angels kick & run restive. 1902 J. S. Fletcher Hist. St. Leger Stakes 114 Quid was exceedingly restless at starting, and ran restive all the way. 1940 Mod. Lang. Rev. 35 449 Pegasus, it is true, generally ‘runs restive’ with our poet. Derivatives ˈrestively adv. in a restive manner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adverb] > intractably or recalcitrantly unbuxomly1390 sturdily1538 restily1611 restively1650 intractably1846 recalcitrantly1912 1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 156 Children being at first bred up restively, acquire a habit thereby, and cannot afterwards..change their course, their Joynts and Limbs are so stiff and unweildly. 1732 C. Hornby Let. Rector of Fryerning 20 Those who ought to be shining Lights and leading Examples,..on the contrary, restively struggle to slip the Collar, and leave the whole Load both of Poor and Parson upon the necks of their Parishioners. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xx. 329 Gentlemen restively imprisoned in dress coats and white gloves. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) II. xliii. 153 [She] obeyed—not with her heart, but restively, like an ill-bred dog or mule. 1907 S. Atlantic Q. Jan. 29 The people were stirring restively. 1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. xviii. 207 Andrew..twisted restively in her hands as she pinned a shawl around. 1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) xxx. 445 He tossed and turned restively, unable to shut out the sounds ricocheting about in his head. 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