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resisted
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vb. (en-past of: resist )
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resist \Re*sist"\ (r?-z?st"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Resisted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Resisting .] [F. r['e]sister, L. resistere, pref. re- re- + sistere to stand, cause to stand, v. causative of stare to stand. See Stand .] To stand against; to withstand; ...
Usage examples of resisted.
In Etruria, in Greece, and in Gaul, it was the first care of the senate to dissolve those dangerous confederacies, which taught mankind that, as the Roman arms prevailed by division, they might be resisted by union.
But though Terminus had resisted the Majesty of Jupiter, he submitted to the authority of the emperor Hadrian.
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism!
But the warlike Germans, who first resisted, then invaded, and at length overturned the Western monarchy of Rome, will occupy a much more important place in this history, and possess a stronger, and, if we may use the expression, a more domestic, claim to our attention and regard.
The most obscure soldier resisted with disdain the authority of the magistrates.
Lyons, on the contrary, had resisted with obstinate disaffection the arms of Aurelian.
Roman people loudly demanded a greater number of victims, the conqueror resisted with firmness and humanity, those servile clamors, which were dictated by flattery as well as by resentment.
Artemon, may, with equal propriety, be applied to the various sects that resisted the successors of the apostles.
Rimini, which aspired to universal freedom, was successfully resisted by the son of Constantine.
In his youth, the primate of Egypt resisted the great Constantine, who had repeatedly signified his will, that Arius should be restored to the Catholic communion.
Persia, to chastise the haughty nation which had so long resisted and insulted the majesty of Rome.
With the same firmness that he resisted the allurements of love, he sustained the hardships of war.
A chain of posts and fortifications, skillfully disposed by Valens, or the generals of Valens, resisted their march, prevented their retreat, and intercepted their subsistence.
Barbarians resisted, on the same ground, the victorious arms of Cyrus and Alexander.
His attack was resisted by the skill and solidity with which the temple of Jupiter had been constructed.