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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Resume  \Re*sume"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Resumed};p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Resuming}.]  [L.  resumere  resumptum  pref.  re-  re-  +  sumere 
  to  take:  cf  F.  r['e]sumer.  See  {Assume},  {Redeem}.] 
  1.  To  take  back 
 
  The  sun,  like  this  from  which  our  sight  we  have 
  Gazed  on  too  long,  resumes  the  light  he  gave 
  --Denham. 
 
  Perhaps  God  will  resume  the  blessing  he  has  bestowed 
  ere  he  attains  the  age  of  manhood.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  2.  To  enter  upon  or  take  up  again 
 
  Reason  resumed  her  place  and  Passion  fled. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  3.  To  begin  again  to  recommence,  as  something  which  has  been 
  interrupted;  as  to  resume  an  argument  or  discourse. 




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