Restitute vs Resuscitate - What's the difference?
restitute | resuscitate |
To restore (something) to its former condition.
To provide recompense for (something).
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 1966 , , Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005,
* 1980 , , Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate , ISBN 9780801491856,
To refund.
* 2004 , , Private Sector , ISBN 9780446613934,
To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.
To regain consciousness.
(obsolete) Restored to life.
In transitive terms the difference between restitute and resuscitate
is that restitute is to refund while resuscitate is to restore consciousness, vigor, or life to.As a noun restitute
is that which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.As an adjective resuscitate is
restored to life.restitute
English
Verb
(restitut)- . . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .
p. 28:
- What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
p. 266:
- [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
p. 31:
- We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.
resuscitate
English
Verb
(resuscitat)- to resuscitate''' a drowned person; to '''resuscitate withered plants
Adjective
(-)- (Bishop Gardiner)