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A second summons.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

Resupinate.

The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed. Our Vitruvius calleth this affection in the eye a resupination of the figure. Sir H. Wotton.

on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

To supply again.

The act of rising again; resurrection.

Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost). [Slang]

A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]

To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.

To survey again or anew; to review. Shak.

Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants. Boyle.

One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.

Restored to life. [R.] Bp. Gardiner.

The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated. The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. Sir W. Scott.

Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.