reside
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɹɪˈzaɪd/
Verb

reside (resides, present participle residing; past and past participle resided)

  1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
    • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
      , [Act III, scene i]:
      […] And the delighted ſpirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]
  2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
    • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
      , [Act I, scene ii]:
      […] for Cogitation / Reſides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]
  3. To sink; to settle, as sediment.
    • ante 1729 William Congreve, “The Birth of the Muse”, in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, volume III, London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Drape, published 1753, page 222:
      […] The madding Winds are huſh’d, the Tempeſts ceaſe, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.
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