RESORT', verb intransitive 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 10:1. John 18:20. 3. To fall back. The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother. obsolete RESORT', noun 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.
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