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Webster 1913 Edition


Resty

Rest′y

,
Adj.
Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Where the master is too
resty
or too rich to say his own prayers.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Resty

REST'Y

,
Adj.
The same as restive or restif, of which it is a contraction.

Definition 2024


resty

resty

English

Adjective

resty (comparative more resty, superlative most resty)

  1. (now regional) Restive. [from 16th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
      In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles, / And backe with both his hands unto him hayles / The resty raynes […].
  2. (now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy. [from 16th c.]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218:
      all [beef] is rejected and unfit for such as lead a resty life, anyways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion […].

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