Definition of "resume"

As to the advice you give, to resume my estate, I am determined not to litigate with my father, let what will be the consequence to myself.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]

For after that initiation it was impossible to attach any profound importance to the notion of dying. All individual deaths had been resumed by the death of God!

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 8

By resumption The Government, most likely the State Government, can resume property for the purposes of building a road or a school or some other purpose.

2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, Cavendish Publishing, page 116

He […] used to say that each separate death had taught him something new about death, and that he was going to resume this knowledge in a philosophic essay about dying.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 36

No man wiſhed more for the high establiſhment of the Royal Family than he did ; but he thought the Prince would do himſelf more honour by giving up the trappings of royalty at this moment, than by reſuming them.

1803, William Woodfall et al., The Parliamentary Register; or an Impartial Report of the Debates that have occurred in the Two Houses of Parliament, volume 2, page 167

Before operations resume, a reduced bond shall be increased to the amount of a full

1991, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 43 CFR 5451.4, Office of the Federal Register, page 68.

He had scanned the resumé of the three previous instalments, and was abut to commence the story[.]

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XI, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 119