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Definition of Re-assume
1. Verb. Take on again, as after a time lapse. "He re-assumed his old behavior"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Re-assume
Literary usage of Re-assume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science by William Thomas Brande, William James MacNeven (1821)
"... it will bend from the perpendicular, and re-assume its former direction, as at c.
Another portion of the oblique pencil will be i ejected at an angle ..."
2. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"But he, remembering his faults, humbly refused to re-assume his authority, and
chose for his residence a solitary place called ..."
3. Italy Under Victor Emmanuel: A Personal Narrative by Carlo Arrivabene (1862)
"... Garibaldi—Critical Position of Medici at Sant' Angelo—Melen- chini debouches
from San Tamaro—The Neapolitans re-assume the offensive—A party of English ..."
4. An impartial history of Ireland, from the period of the English invasion to by Dennis Taaffe (1811)
"Yet Phelim had the good fortune to defeat both the English and their Irish
partizans, and re-assume the sovereignty without a rival. ..."
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