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Definition of Resifted
1. resift [v] - See also: resift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resifted
Literary usage of Resifted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... more or less for several years, and their evidence, pro and con, has been
sifted and resifted, so that its value can now be fairly well estimated. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... more or less for several years, and their evidence, pro and con, has been
sifted and resifted, so that its value can now be fairly well estimated. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"The Gospels have apparently been sifted and resifted, till their fragments fall
without coherence in showers at the foot of enA successive page. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"... Superintendence and interference in any degree might be eventually reSifted
and annihilated. ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883)
"Dear sir, we have inquired ; Sifted the matter thoroughly through and through,
And then resifted it. MATHER. If God permits These Evil Spirits from the ..."
6. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1913)
"Presently his head emerged from the line of weeds by the fence, his nose began
working. anxiously, he sifted and resifted the air with it, and then quickly ..."
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