单词 | resumption |
释义 | resumptionn. 1. a. Law (now chiefly Australian). The action, on the part of the Crown or another authority, of reassuming possession of lands, rights, etc., which have been given or granted to another; (also) a case or instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] > reassuming possession of land or rights resumption1443 reassumption1701 1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 297 (MED) As to þe second article of resumpcion of grauntes maad, [etc.]. 1489–90 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1489 §27. m. 9 By force of an acte of parliament called a resumpcion. 1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 10 The said Act of Resumption, or any Articles therein contained. ?1565 in J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales (1670) 57 If after Resumption the Queen shall decline the working, then William Humfrey..to have the preference of Farming it [etc.]. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 248 By the Statut of Resumption vnder Hen. VIII. most of the Royalties of our English Counties Palatin were diminisht, and taken into the Croun. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 29 Mar. (1971) IV. 88 The late discourse in the House of Commons concerning Resumpcion of Crowne Lands. 1723 tr. F. C. Weber Present State Russia I. 3 They entertained Hopes of being restored to their former Estates which they lost by the late Resumption during the Swedish Administration. 1787 A. Young Jrnl. 26 July in Trav. France (1792) i. 46 This great work stands still at present through a fear of resumptions. 1831 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 4 July in Wks. (1846) III. 552 To represent our resumption of a right of suffrage as a precedent for their seizure of lands and possessions. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxvii. 359 They knew that the benefit of the resumption was not to be for them. 1936 E. Scott Austral. during War in Official Hist. Austral. 1914–18 XI. 845 The Commonwealth Government now agreed..to finance the States in the resumption of private estates for soldier settlement. 1983 A. Briggs Social Hist. Eng. (1985) iv. 92 Cade's demands included..the resumption into the King's own hands of royal lands which had been granted away. 1996 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 June 2/1 Transport Minister Vaughan Johnson conceded yesterday that property resumptions would be required to develop the busways. b. More generally: the action of taking something back into one's own possession; reassumption, reappropriation; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > [noun] > taking back or again retaking1436 gain-taking1538 reassumption1611 replevin1619 withdrawment1640 retrotraction1673 resumption1694 retrosusception1827 take-back1873 snatch-back1905 1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. ix. 330/2 Reminiscence is nothing but the Resumption, by present Memory, of Cognition first had, and then afterwards Obliterated. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 195 Resumptions are as ordinary with this lady [sc. fortune] as with a House of Commons. 1836 R. W. Emerson Nature viii. 90 This is such a resumption of power, as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch. 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxix. 356 Now that the power of the latter was broken, the Eleians aimed at resumption of their lost supremacy. 1880 G. MacDonald Bk. of Strife 217 So, Lord, if Thou tak'st from me all the rest, Thyself with each resumption drawing nigher. 1906 G. W. Chrystal tr. Mem. Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerste II. 232 There is much scheming for and against his resumption of the supreme power. 1968 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 40 134 The dissolution of parliament in April 1659, the resumption of control by the army in May. 2005 G. Harriss Shaping Nation iii. xv. 634 York's second protectorate..could not be sustained against Henry's resumption of authority. 2. The action or an act of repeating a phrase, word, sound, etc., frequently for clarity or emphasis; recapitulation; (also) a summary, a résumé (now rare).In quot. 1728: the action or an act of restating a logical proposition in clearer terms. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > recapitulation recapitulationa1400 anacephalaeosis1583 recollection1590 resumption1728 recap1909 1588 A. Fraunce Arcadian Rhetorike i. xxii. sig. D3 Epanalepsis or resumption, is when the same sound is iterated in the beginning and ending. a1640 T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. (1654) 3197 Perhaps this last Clause might be a meer Repetition of the former, interserted by Moses, the writer of this Storie, rather then a Reiteration or resumption of the former Complaint. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Resumption is also used by Logicians for the reduction of some figurative or quaint Proposition, to a more intelligible and significant one. 1786 E. Apthorp Disc. Prophecy I. ii. 95 It is to be Observed, that some continued prophecies occasionally admit of Resumptions, repetitions, and retrogradations. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xliii. 444 A theory, in fact, which is the resumption and complement of them all. 1885 W. C. Wilkinson College Lat. Course iv. 164 Toward the end of book first, Lucretius reaches, in a kind of resumption of his argument, the following statement of his theory of atoms and void. 1907 L. Josaphare Man who wanted Bungalow 38 In resumption, I may state that house-warming is an excellent mental stimulus and leaves many tender memories. 1959 M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. in Mod. Times iv. 99 Reprise constructions (called resumptions by Partridge) in formal discourse employed the appositional pronoun to recall a noun separated from its verb by a long series of interrupting modifiers. 2005 N. Armstrong Transl., Linguistics, Culture v. 130 In prose, resumption of a noun phrase with a pronoun or relative pronoun does..convey emphasis. 3. a. The action of taking up or starting something again after interruption; recommencement; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > recommencing or resuming renovelancec1450 renovelment1477 renovelling1483 resumption1589 renewal1603 recommencing1705 reactivation1903 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > (a) starting operation > again renovation1529 resumption1589 restart1858 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > a fresh or new beginning > resumption renovation1529 resumption1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 184 The resumption of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision. 1636 G. Primrose tr. D. Primrose Treat. Sabbath ii. iii. 98 The ordinances of the Law of Moses were not all given at once, but by succession of time, and sundry resumptions, as may be seene in his Bookes. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed viii. 617 This word, I believe, is taken here onely by way of resumption or repetition. 1795 Freemason's Mag. June 411 The resumption of the adjourned debate on the Bill to procure a full attendance. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari i. i, in Sardanapalus 179 The hour's past—fix'd yesterday For the resumption of his trial. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. x. 239 The first instance of resumption, after long disuse, of impeachments of ministers on account of advice to the Crown. 1884 Weekly Notes 9 Feb. 28/2 Both funds must be treated as belonging to the wife for her separate use upon the resumption of cohabitation. 1947 Federal Reserve Bull. 33 40 This would mean a resumption of the practice of creating bank reserves through monetizing the debt. 1989 P. Mailloux Hesitation before Birth xi. 163 All that awaited him in Prague were a return to work and resumption of a life he was having more and more trouble abiding. b. Banking. A return to specie payments. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > specific banking procedures standing order1619 out-clearing1836 credit transfer1847 clearance1858 resumption1866 money transfer1873 in-clearing1878 wire transfer1878 clearing1883 giro1896 lockbox1957 transfer payment1964 disintermediation1966 reintermediation1970 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking ix. 182 We will take the price [of bank stock] every five years down to the final resumption in 1821. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 156 Despite the stoppage of the resumption policy preparing by Secretary McCullough. 1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 30 Resumption came at last,..when the Government, for the first time in seventeen years, made its payments in coin. 1905 C. A. Conant Princ. Money & Banking II. v. vi. 263 The bank made a serious effort to resume specie payments after the final fall of Napoleon. Full resumption took place on May 21, 1821. 1954 R. T. Patterson Federal Debt-management Policies v. 66 His able preparation for resumption when he served as Secretary of the Treasury. 1996 M. D. Bordo & A. J. Schwartz in J. B. De Macedo et al. Currency Convertibility ii. 11 Specie payments were suspended and paper money and debt were issued. But in each case, after the wartime emergency had passed, policies leading to resumption were adopted. ΚΠ 1856 J. Williams tr. Anc. Gram. Edeyrn §1784 Resumption [W. kymeriad] is the practice of beginning every verse with the same letter, which is sustained throughout. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1443 |
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