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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Resort  \Re*sort"\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Resorted};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Resorting}.]  [OF.  resortir  to  withdraw,  take  refuge,  F. 
  ressortir  to  be  in  the  jurisdiction,  LL  resortire  pref.  re- 
  re-  +  L.  sortiri  to  draw  lots  obtain  by  lot  from  sors  lot 
  See  {Sort}.  The  meaning  is  first  to  reobtain  (by  lot),  then 
  to  gain  by  appeal  to  a  higher  court  (as  a  law  term),  to 
  appeal,  go  for  protection  or  refuge.] 
  1.  To  go  to  repair;  to  betake  one's  self 
 
  What  men  name  resort  to  him?  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  fall  back  to  revert.  [Obs.] 
 
  The  inheritance  of  the  son  never  resorted  to  the 
  mother,  or  to  any  of  her  ancestors.  --Sir  M.  Hale. 




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