Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Restored to one's senses; right-minded.
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Examples
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His endless variety of kabobs and pilaus is worthy of all commendation; and his sherbets, which refresh without a sting or a resipiscent headache next morning, are no doubt the style of phlegm-cutters and gum-ticklers which one had better patronize pretty exclusively while between the tropics.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
kpaintin commented on the word resipiscent
Having returned to a saner mind.
From Latin resipiscere (to recover one's senses), from re- (again)
+ sapere (to taste, to know). Ultimately from Indo-European root sep-
(to taste or perceive) that is also the source of sage, savant, savvy, savor, sapid, sapient, and insipid.
"I am a recidivist, frequently guilty of overwriting and overciting.
But I am at least a resipiscent recidivist. I have come around to the
view that, though it may take discipline to cut more quickly to the
chase and to doff the security blanket that writers weave from string
citations, we, as judges, must dedicate ourselves to the task."
Excerpt from Hon. Bruce M. Selya; In Search of Less; Texas Law Review;
Volume 74, 1996.
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