RESUME

Definitions

1. 1. To take back. The sun, like this, from which our sight we have, Gazed on too long, resumes the light he gave. Denham. Perhaps God will resume the blessing he has bestowed ere he attains the age of manhood. Sir W. Scott.
2. 2. To enter upon, or take up again. Reason resumed her place, and Passion fled. Dryden.
3. 3. To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.