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KJV Dictionary / R / resist

KJV Dictionary Definition: resist

resist

RESIST, v.t. rezist'. L. resisto; re and sisto, to stand.

1. Literally, to stand against; to withstand; hence, to act in opposition, or to oppose. a dam or mound resists a current of water passively, by standing unmoved and interrupting its progress. An army resists the progress of an enemy actively, by encountering and defeating it. We resist measures by argument or remonstrance.

Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath resisted his will? Rom. 9.

2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat or frustrate.

Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. Act. 7.

3. To baffle; to disappoint.

God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. James 4.

resistance

RESIST'ANCE, n.

1. The act of resisting; opposition. Resistance is passive, as that of a fixed body which interrupts the passage of a moving body; or active, as in the exertion of force to stop, repel or defeat progress or designs.

2. The quality of not yielding to force or external impression; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as the resistance of a ball which receives the force of another; the resistance of wood to a cutting instrument; the resistance of air to the motion of a cannon ball, or of water to the motion of a ship.

resistant

RESIST'ANT, n. he or that which resists.

resisted

RESIST'ED, pp. Opposed; counteracted; withstood.

resister

RESIST'ER, n. One that opposes or withstands.

resistibility

RESISTIBIL'ITY, n.

1. The quality of resisting.

The name body, being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject -

2. Quality of being resistible; as the resistibility of grace.

resistible

RESIST'IBLE, a. That may be resisted; as a resistible force; resistible grace.

resisting

RESIST'ING, ppr. withstanding; opposing.

Resisting medium, a substance which opposes the passage of a body through it.

resistive

RESIST'IVE, a. Having the power to resist.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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