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Resulted

Result \Re*sult"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Resulting.] [F. r['e]sulter, fr. L. resultare, resultarum, to spring or leap back, v. intens. fr. resilire. See Resile.]

  1. To leap back; to rebound. [Obs.]

    The huge round stone, resulting with a bound.
    --Pope.

  2. 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.

  3. To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.

    Pleasure and peace do naturally result from a holy and good life.
    --Tillotson.

    Resulting trust (Law), a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party granting an estate. The phrase is also applied to a trust raised by implication for the benefit of a party who advances the purchase money of an estate, etc.
    --Bouvier.

    Resulting use (Law), a use which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and thence returns to him who raised it.
    --Bouvier.

    Syn: To proceed; spring; rise; arise; ensue; terminate.

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resulted

vb. (en-past of: result)

Usage examples of "resulted".

It had taken years to weed out the psychedelic damages that had resulted in the freaks of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

He forced himself to review the terrible Siwannah tragedy which had resulted in that very same Principle.

The clink of tableware against pottery and plastic and mumbled requests for platters and the replenishment of emptied pitchers resulted in a surface noise that bore some resemblance to a normal mealtime.

He, too, was risking censure, even dismissal, if a crime resulted from negligence even by his subordinate, Newry.

SS meant ssersa poisoning, MS for snake, M for mda, A for accient-broken leg or some other injury which resulted in euthanasia.

Her mother had never been so forthright, and yet Nora did not feel the re assurance which ought to have resulted from such frankness.

There might be something to say for implantation after all if the process resulted in such superbly fit people.

Lunzie had been approached by the ethics council to join them, their interest stemming from her involvement as the student advisor on a similar panel during her days in medical school which had resulted in an experimental colony.

An attempt at harmony resulted in cacophony and Tanner wagged his arms wildly for silence.

A freak power failure had resulted in the total loss of the planet's embryo banks.

He replied with a show of depletion that could only be an apology that the unprecedented feedback and the production of an unstable reaction mass had resulted in such entropy for the visitors.

It sucked in water and sprayed it on the heated chamber that resulted, expelling it behind as steam for propulsion.

An extension of that principle resulted in the first spaceships totally controlled by encapsulated human beings.

Yet how to identify Malice when that mistake had obviously zoo zoi resulted in this current total silence.

The forest fire had gone out, doused by a rain system which, unfortunately, resulted in smoke obscuring that area so the cause of the conflagration remained a mystery.