Definition of Resorted

1. Verb. (past of resort) ¹

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Definition of Resorted

1. resort [v] - See also: resort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Resorted

resorcinol phthalic anhydride
resorcinol test
resorcinolphthalein
resorcinolphthalein sodium
resorcinols
resorcins
resorcylic
resorption
resorption atelectasis
resorption lacunae
resorptions
resorptive
resort
resort area
resort hotel
resorted (current term)
resorter
resorters
resorting
resortlike
resorts
resorufin
resought
resoun
resound
resounded
resounding
resoundingly
resoundings
resounds

Literary usage of Resorted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884)
"How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds. It was in vain. I brought my hardest right angle into violent collision with the Stranger, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... process resorted to by gardeners to protect tender plants from cold, which consists simply in spreading over them a thin mat or some flimsy substance. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Intensification and reduction can be effected only at great risk of interfering with the gradation of the image, and should never be resorted to unless it ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Intensification and reduction can be effected only at great risk of interfering with the gradation of the image, and should never be resorted to unless it ..."

5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... end of the 13th century the Trouvères had broken loose from the Church, and resorted to little village histories or love- stories for their material. ..."

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