reseize, v.
(riːˈsiːz)
Forms: 5 receyse, 6–7 reseise, 6– reseize, 7– re-seize; 5 recease, 6 -sease, 7 -seaze.
[ad. OF. resaisir (mod.F. ressaisir; med.L. resaisīre, etc.): see re- and seize v.]
† 1. trans. To invest or endow (one) again with, put again in possession of, something; to replace in, or restore to, a former position or dignity. Obs.
| 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. ix. 100 Full soone he shall be fette oute of thy hand Receysed shalle he be with paradys. 1562 Burn. Paules Ch., Because the kinge hais reuested and reseased me of the whole archbishopricke. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 45 He..therein reseized was againe, And ruled long with honorable state. 1607 Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1841) II. 219 We..need to be consecrate anew, to re-seize us of the first fruits of the Spirit again. 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlvi. (1739) 76 By this means he re-seized and reassumed the English, in partnership with the Norman in their ancient right. |
2. To seize, take hold or possession of, (some thing or person) again.
| 1567 Stanford Exposicion 82 b, To come & shew why the land should not bee reseised. 1599 Death Philip II in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 285 The goute reseasing him, accompanied with a fever, made him far sicker than before. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlviii. 222 The rightfull heire of Portugale his Empyre shall re-seaze. 1666 Ormonde MSS. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 21 His Grace re⁓seized the lands. a 1700 Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 105 In his Cell his Sorrow him reseiz'd. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. x. 187 The sheriff is commanded to reseise the land and all the chattels thereon. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India I. iii. iv. 608 When the opposing army was obliged to retrace its steps, they immediately reseized the country. 1845 Ld. Campbell Chancellors lii. (1857) III 28 A motion about re-seizing the lands of a relapsed recusant. |
| absol. 1567 Stanford Exposicion 82 The kinge may reseise w{supt}out a Scire facias. Ibid. 83 b, Whether the king shal reseise in that case. |
Hence
reˈseizer, ‘one that seizes again.’
| 1755 in Johnson; hence in later Dicts. |