Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 53

Restorationer (n.) A Restorationist.

Restorationism (n.) The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.

Restorationist (n.) One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.

Restorative (a.) Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.

Restorative (n.) Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine.

Restoratively (adv.) In a restorative manner.

Restorator (n.) A restaurateur.

Restoratory (a.) Restorative.

Re-store (v. t.) To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

Restored (imp. & p. p.) of Restore

Restoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restore

Restore (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

Restore (v. t.) To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.

Restore (v. t.) To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.

Restore (v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.

Restore (v. t.) To make good; to make amends for.

Restore (v. t.) To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.

Restore (v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

Restore (n.) Restoration.

Restorement (n.) Restoration.

Restorer (n.) One who, or that which, restores.

Restrained (imp. & p. p.) of Restrain

Restraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrain

Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.

Restrain (v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein.

Restrain (v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.

Restrain (v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.

Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.

Restrainable (a.) Capable of being restrained; controllable.

Restrainedly (adv.) With restraint.

Restrainer (n.) One who, or that which, restrains.

Restrainment (n.) The act of restraining.

Restraint (n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.

Restraint (n.) The state of being restrained.

Restraint (n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.

Restrengthen (v. t.) To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

Restrict (a.) Restricted.

Restricted (imp. & p. p.) of Restrict

Restricting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrict

Restrict (v. t.) To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

Restriction (n.) The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

Restriction (n.) That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade.

Restrictionary (a.) Restrictive.

Restrictive (a.) Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

Restrictive (a.) Astringent or styptic in effect.

Restringed (imp. & p. p.) of Restringe

Restringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restringe

Restringe (v. t.) To confine; to contract; to stringe.

Restringency (n.) Quality or state of being restringent; astringency.

Restringent (a.) Restringing; astringent; styptic.

Restringent (n.) A restringent medicine.

Restrive (v. i.) To strive anew.

Resty (a.) Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

Resubjection (n.) A second subjection.

Resublime (v. t.) To sublime again.

Resudation (n.) Act of sweating again.

Resulted (imp. & p. p.) of Result

Resulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Result

Result (v. i.) To leap back; to rebound.

Result (v. i.) To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.

Result (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.

Result (n.) A flying back; resilience.

Result (n.) That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.

Result (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Resultance (n.) The act of resulting; that which results; a result.

Resultant (a.) Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

Resultant (n.) That which results.

Resultant (n.) A reultant force or motion.

Resultant (n.) An eliminant.

Resultate (n.) A result.

Resultful (a.) HAving results or effects.

Resultive (a.) Resultant.

Resultless (a.) Being without result; as, resultless investigations.

Resumable (a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed.

Resume (n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

Resumed (imp. & p. p.) of Resume

Resuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resume

Resume (v. t.) To take back.

Resume (v. t.) To enter upon, or take up again.

Resume (v. t.) To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.

Resummon (v. t.) To summon again.

Resummons (n.) A second summons.

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

Resumption (n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

Resumptive (a.) Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

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

Resupinated (a.) Resupinate.

Resupination (n.) The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.

Resupine (a.) Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.

Resupply (v. t.) To supply again.

Resurgence (n.) The act of rising again; resurrection.

Resurgent (a.) Rising again, as from the dead.

Resurgent (n.) One who rises again, as from the dead.

Resurrect (v. t.) To take from the grave; to disinter.

Resurrect (v. t.) To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).

Resurrection (n.) A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

Resurrection (n.) Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.

Resurrection (n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.

Resurrection (n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

Resurrectionist (n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.

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