re-settle

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re-settle (third-person singular simple present re-settles, present participle re-settling, simple past and past participle re-settled)

  1. Alternative form of resettle
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter V. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. [], volume I, London: [] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, [], →OCLC, pages 65–66:
      The Lady then, in the ſame gentle tone cried—“Oh creature! equally idle and ferocious!”—while he folded his arms, and re-ſettling himſelf, with his two dogs upon the ſopha, declared, that he felt himſelf diſpoſed to take a nap.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume III, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
      About the third or fourth morning after their being thus re-settled in Berkeley-street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, []