1653 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy 21–28 Sept. 1134 A Resurvey may be taken in behalf of the State within three years after, and the Overplus be seized.

1662 in W. W. Hening Statutes at Large: Coll. Laws Virginia (1823) II. 101 The ffifty seaventh act prohibiting resurveighs not applying the expected remedies.

1702 Refl. on Case of W. Penn 9 The next thing to be consider'd is the Over-plus Land upon a Re-survey.

1768 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 244 A resurvey of the intended navigation from Leeds to Liverpoole.

1806 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 349 By repeated re-surveys these lines are kept up.

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 156 The re-survey of the line would occupy at least four weeks.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 2/2 A re-survey has for some time been taking place.

1920 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 3rd Ser. 2 104 An owner may also obtain a certificate of amended title if, on a resurvey of the land, its boundaries are found to be incorrectly represented.

1997 J. Terborgh & P. van Schaik in R. Kramer et al. Last Stand ii. 18 A resurvey provided photographic documentation that all the forest on the ridge..had been razed.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxii. sig. C3^v If thou..shalt By fortune once more re-suruay: These poore rude lines of thy deceased Louer [etc.] . View more context for this quotation

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 251 When upon a greater Familiarity with..the applicablenesse of Scripture, I came to resurvey it.

a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 11 My Cyphers I to Figures change,..But when I resurvey the Score, I still find more.

1727 L. Welsted Hymn to Creator 6 Sure, with these Eyes, to resurvey His Darling at the latter Day.

1840 Sc. Christian Herald 28 Mar. 207/2 We re-survey the characters of the epistle in thoughtful sadness.

1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iv. 113 Collins, and the whole array of writers.., greatly need to be re-surveyed from the point of view of our own age.

a1961 H. D. Asphodel (1992) 78 Tiny cool corridor with a great mirror at the far end from which a person (not herself) paused to re-survey her.

1993 Milton Stud. 28 211 I should like to resurvey the evidence for more traditional interpretations.

1726 Observator's Trip to Amer. 40 The Land being very good..he has taken care to have it Re-surveyed.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 74 An eminent surveyor..had been employed by the young Earl to resurvey his estates.

1806 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 350 The old estates have been often re-surveyed.

1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris xiii. 301 The coast-line..does not seem to be correct, and ought to be resurveyed.

1926 Science 7 May 476/2 The same plot was resurveyed and the ratio of new to old growth was found to be only three in one.

1996 E. A. Hanushek et al. in N. Birdsall & R. H. Sabot Opportunity Foregone xiv. 390 There was no explicit attempt to resurvey those tested two years earlier.