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Verb
re-settle (third-person singular simple present re-settles, present participle re-settling, simple past and past participle re-settled)
- Alternative form of resettle
1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter V. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. , volume I, London: G[eorge,] G J and J Robinson, , →OCLC, pages 65–66:The Lady then, in the ſame gentle tone cried—“Oh creature! equally idle and ferocious!”—while he folded his arms, and re-ſettling himſelf, with his two dogs upon the ſopha, declared, that he felt himſelf diſpoſed to take a nap.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility , volume III, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 1–2:About the third or fourth morning after their being thus re-settled in Berkeley-street, Mrs. Jennings, on returning from her ordinary visit to Mrs. Palmer, entered the drawing-room, […]