Resume

Definition of Resume

Re`sume´

n.	1.	A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation. The exellent little résumé thereof in Dr. Landsborough's book. - C. Kingsley.
v. t.	1.	To take back. [imp. & p. p. Resumed ;p. pr. & vb. n. Resuming.] The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. - Denham. Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. - Sir W. Scott.
	2.	To enter upon, or take up again. Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. - Dryden.
	3.	To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

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