▪ I. † reˈside, n. Obs. rare.
[f. the vb.]
Residence, sojourn. (Only in Brathwait.)
| 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewom. (1641) 293 Make no reside there where the least occasion of lightnesse is ministred. 1635 ― Arcad. Princ. **3 In the time of his reside at Court, there were no Transcripts held so precious as his Poems. |
▪ II. reside, v.1
(rɪˈzaɪd)
Also 5 resyde, 7 recide, 6 resede, -cede.
[ad. F. résider (= Sp. and Pg. residir, It. risedere) or L. residēre to remain behind, rest, etc., f. re- re- + sedēre to sit.]
† 1. a. intr. To settle; to take up one's abode or station. Obs. rare.
| c 1460 Maitl. Cl. Misc. (1855) III. 37 Thai came in Navarn and Wisbayn, and resydit on the ryver of Hyber. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xix. 70 It sholde be a shame to me..to reside in this land of lybie, wythoute to accomplishe my wyage. a 1657 W. Burton Itin. Antonin. (1658) 250 This Legion..was taken into Britain by Claudius Cæsar, and planted here, where..it recided against the Silures. |
† b. To rest or rely upon oneself. Obs. rare—1.
| 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xii. vi. (1620) 423 The iust cause of the bad Angels misery is their departure from that high essence to reside vpon themselues. |
2. a. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time, to have one's settled or usual abode, to live, in or at a particular place.
| 1578 T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 135 Nor yet ever any hath come so neare Mexico where Mutezuma dooth reside. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xviii. 51 The Sarail, where ordinarilie the great lord Turk doth resede. Ibid. iv. xxxvi. 159 b, The second [patriarch] recedith at Caire. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 277 There at the moated-Grange recides this deiected Mariana. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 290 To appoint his successour in that place, in which he last resided and dyed. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 610 Secure within resides the various God, And draws a Rock upon his dark Abode. 1740 Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. xii. III. 22, I purpose to set out for Naples. I am told by every body that I shall not find it agreeable to reside in. 1838 Lytton Alice i. ii, His father resided in the next county. 1873 Ruskin Fors Clav. V. lviii. 279 Those of the Companions who could reside on the lands would, each on their own farm, establish [etc.]. |
| transf. 1610 Shakes. Temp. iii. i. 65 The verie instant that I saw you, did My heart flie to your seruice, there resides To make me slaue to it. 1815 Shelley Alastor 512 Where these living thoughts reside, when..my bloodless limbs shall waste I' the passing wind. 1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xiii. 88 Such a solution is liquid at the temperatures and pressures at which the Venus clouds reside. |
b. Of persons having some special status or position. Hence, to live (at a place) for the discharge of official duties; to be ‘in residence’.
| 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 146 In distribucioun of wagis in collegis, is nocht gevin bot to thame that resydis. c 1530 in Burnet Hist. Ref. I. Rec. ii. xxiii. 62 You Sir Gregory being his Ambassadour there continually residing. ? 1667 in Pettus Fodinæ Reg. (1670) 39 One Vnder-Steward to recide at the Mines. 1715 Lond. Gaz. No. 5324/3 James Jefferyes, Esq., to reside for His Majesty's Service with the King of Sweden. 1860 Bentley's Quarterly I. 528 A clergyman resides on his living; a cabinet-minister resides (if he does reside) in Downing Street. |
c. Of animals. (Not now in serious use.)
| 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 157 This place..abounds with goats... These animals reside here in great tranquillity. 1794 S. Williams Vermont (1809) I. 108 The Woodchuck..resides in a hole which he digs in the ground. |
3. a. Of power, rights, etc.: To rest or be vested in a person, etc. † Also const. with.
| 1607 Stat. in Hist. Wakefield Sch. (1892) 59 That the election..alwaies reside and remayne with themselves. a 1674 Clarendon Surv. Leviath. 122 Let us suppose this Soveraignty to reside, and be fixed in an assembly of men. 1736 Berkeley Disc. Wks. 1871 III. 416 Power—physical power—resides in the people. 1791 Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 21 When despotism has established itself for ages..it is not in the person of the King only that it resides. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) I. xii. 354 Rights are exercised by persons, or if not exercised by persons reside in persons. 1874 Green Short Hist. i. §1. 4 The actual sovereignty within the settlement resided in the body of its freemen. |
b. Of qualities, attributes, etc.: To be present or inherent in a person or thing.
| 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 272 Cogitation Resides not in that man, that do's not thinke. 1692 Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 140 The meanest Plant cannot be rais'd without Seed by any Formative power residing in the Soil. 1720 Waterland Eight Serm. 199 Attributes and Powers must have something to reside and inhere in. 1784 Cowper Tiroc. 373 Resides such virtue in that air, As must create an appetite for pray'r? 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 200 A man in whose heart resides some effluence of Wisdom. 1843 Mill Logic i. ii. §5 The meaning resides not in what they denote, but in what they connote. 1871 Mozley Univ. Serm. vi. (1876) 127 The glory of nature in reality resides in the mind of man. 1972 Incorporated Linguist XI. 30 The significance of linguistic theorizing resides..in the fact that it provides intellectual training while..introducing the learner to problems of the functioning of linguistic systems. |
c. To be physically present in a thing. Now rare.
| 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 117 Corrupt humors, that reside in the body. 1758 Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 277 He concluded that in this Saline matter resides the true Acid. 1823 J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 18 The acid which was long known to reside in wood. 1846 Tizard Brewing (ed. 2) 548 The rich nectarium residing in the lupuline is prevented by the dense worts from exuding. |
† 4. a. To remain or continue in a certain place or position. Obs.
| 1620 Venner Via Recta viii. 175 The third is, that they reside not in the chaire of intemperance, that is, prolong not the time in eating and drinking superfluously. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 100 In Scio, it was well known, the distemper had resided for some time. |
† b. Of things: To lie, be placed or stationed, somewhere. Obs. rare.
| 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. ii. viii. (1821) 319 Her Majesties Magazines of Victualls, Munition, and Treasure residing there in great quantities. 1725 Pope Odyss. i. 237 Far from your Capital my ship resides At Reithrus, and secure at anchor rides. 1742 Gray Propertius ii. 9 Let on this head unfadeing flowers reside. |
▪ III. † reˈside, v.2 Obs.
[ad. L. resīdĕre, f. re- re- + sīdĕre to sink.]
1. intr. To sink down, to subside.
| c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxxix. iv, Thy lordlie check the seas proud courage quailed, And highly swelling, lowly made reside. a 1702 Congreve Birth of Muse, Every rolling surge resides in peace. |
2. To sink or settle down as a deposit.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 56 The matter of meane substance, which is sulphurus, oylely, & apt to burne, resideth in the bottome of the glasse. 1660 Sharrock Vegetables 93 The mixt earth that was carryed in the flood being apt to reside to the bottom. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 620 The sulphurs and Bitums are alwaies obvious to be discerned in the waters wherein they are, because they reside in them, or swim on them. |
3. To alight. rare—0.
| 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Reside, to alight. 1623 Cockeram ii. A ¶ ij, To Alight from a horse, reside. |