resiance

English

Etymology

Latin reseantia, Old French reseance.

Noun

resiance (plural resiances)

1. (obsolete) residence; abode
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     [he] had a resiance in Antwerp

References

• “resiance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cairenes, Ceresian, Increase, cerasine, increase