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Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.

See Persistent. Shak.

One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.

gainst; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.

Making resistance; resisting. -- n.

One who resists.

Making much resistance.

The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.

Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.

Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.

Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.

Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or R.] Spenser.

The quality or state of being self-consistent.

Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope.

Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.