• Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward;stubborn; drawing back.Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as somehorses do. E. Philips (1658).The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were todrag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and wentback. Macaulay.


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