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Definition of Reassume
1. v. t. To assume again or anew; to resume.
Definition of Reassume
1. Verb. To resume, to carry on (a practice, thought, occupation etc.) again. ¹
2. Verb. To take on or adopt again. ¹
3. Verb. (rare) To take back into one's possession. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reassume
1. assume [v -SUMED, -SUMING, -SUMES] - See also: assume
Literary usage of Reassume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter (1852)
"... into the affairs of the company—Resolves to reassume his conceded authority—His
proposition rejected by the company—Commissioners sent to Virginia. ..."
2. The History of Virginia, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by Timothy Shay Arthur (1853)
"... into the affairs of the company—Resolves to reassume his conceded authority—His
proposition rejected by the company—Commissioners sent to Virginia. ..."
3. The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857)
"... Diocletian had condemned him to pass a life of melancholy solitude, and at
the request of his son and of the senate condescended to reassume the purple. ..."
4. The Yazoo Land Companies by Charles Homer Haskins (1891)
"the constitution now in question, and that it implies a contract not to reassume
the rights granted ; a fortiori, the doctrine applies to a charter or grant ..."
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