resort

1. (intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.Examples: "The king thought it time to resort to other counsels."; "He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table […]"; "Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To fall back; to revert.Examples: "But the Inheritance of the Son never reſorted to the Mother, or to any of her Anceſtors, but both ſhe and they were totally excluded from the Succeſſion."; "I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To make one's way, go (to).Examples: "The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore."intransitive

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative spelling of re-sort (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography)alt-ofalternativeintransitivetransitive

1. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.Examples: "Some […] know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it."obsolete