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KJV Dictionary Definition: resort

resort

RESORT', v.i. s as z.

1. To have recourse; to apply; to betake.

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

2. To go; to repair.

The people resort to him again. Mark 10. John 18.

3. To fall back.

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. Obs.

RESORT', n.

1. The act of going to or making application; a betaking one's self; as a resort to other means of defense; a resort to subterfuges for evasion.

2. Act of visiting.

Join with me to forbid him her resort.

3. Assembly; meeting.

4. Concourse; frequent assembling; as a place of resort.

5. The place frequented; as, alehouses are the resorts of the idle and dissolute.

6. Spring; active power or movement; a Gallicism. Not in use.

Last resort, ultimate means of relief; also, final tribunal; that from which there is no appeal.

resorter

RESORT'ER, n. One that resorts or frequents.

resorting

RESORT'ING, ppr. Going; having recourse; betaking; frequenting.