resorteth
resorteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of resort.
Meaning of resort
Verb
resort (third-person singular simple present resorts, present participle resorting, simple past and past participle resorted)
- To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
- The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...
- To fall back; to revert.
- But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion.1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching the Course of Descents in England”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […]...
- To make one's way, go (to).
- The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew
Origin of resorteth
resort + -eth
Questions about resorteth
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- Resorteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of resort.
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