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Reassume

Reassume \Re`as*sume"\ (r[=e]`[a^]s*s[=u]m"), v. t. To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion (r[=e]`[a^]s*s[u^]mp"sh[u^]n), n.

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reassume

vb. 1 To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again. 2 To take on or adopt again. 3 (context now rare English) To take back into one's possession.

Usage examples of "reassume".

As cotyledons and leaves are continually oscillating up and down, and yet retain all day long their proper position with their upper surfaces directed transversely to the light, and if displaced reassume this position, diaheliotropism must be considered as a modified form of circumnutation.

Matson had been tempted to reassume the Fluxgirl form as well, for much the same reasons, but ultimately decided that the tall, dark Sondra was required as an authority figure.

But he undoubtedly misses his natural form, and seeks for excuses to reassume it.

I found myself frowning into my drink, drove my inside knowledge of the situation to the back of my mind, and tried to reassume my status as a tourist.

With Strongblade gone warring, she would naturally reassume the authority she had been forced to yield at his coronation.

Lamorak and became, finally and for all time, merely Karl Shan he would reassume his true caste, his birth caste of Business, could retire tomorrow and take a position with the family busine SynTech, the electronic chemicals giant, and make five times me money than any Actor, even Caine.

Imass reassume his form upon striking the heart of that wound, a tiny, seemingly insignificant splayed figure that was quickly swallowed in the inky darkness.

In this position it continues to circumnutate until the following morning, when it reassumes its former position.

But soon, the guardian angel gone, The daemon reassumed his throne In my faint heart.

And the crystalline Heaven has reassumed Its windless calm so quickly, that it seems As if its heavy wrath had been awakened Only to overwhelm that vessel,--speak, Who art thou, and whence comest thou?

Had passed away, it reassumed Its native dignity, and stood Immortal amid ruin.

Veza had reassumed her legs the day after she last spoke to the empress.

Poirot beamed on me, as he reassumed his own clothes and handed me mine.

Hanes gave me a piece of paper, then reassumed his stance at the bathtub.

The deck canted wildly for a mad instant before the artificial gravity reassumed control, and die bridge was filled with the smoke and actinic glare of electrical fires.