Resiliate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract. Canada
"A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...]."
- 2 To rebound; to bounce back. literary, uncommon
"The Rays, instead of being transmitted into the Air through the Glass, find the Passage shut by a Surface smooth enough to make them resiliate easily under an Angle equal to that of their Fall."
- 3 To reecho, to support or amplify through similar exposition. literary, uncommon
"And if the text itself virtually announces that something was suppressed then it is the pious reader's/interpreter's obligation to resiliate as much as is possible about the suppression."
- 4 To make or become resilient. nonstandard, uncommon
"The man is a miracle of resiliency. Long may he resiliate (?),"
Example
More examples"A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...]."
Etymology
From French résilier (“cancel, annul, invalidate”).
From Latin resiliō (“leap or spring back; rebound”).
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