resume
verb (used with object)
to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue.
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The old Hindoo deeds commonly directed that the grant should last 'as long as the sun and moon shall endure', and invoked awful curses on the head of the resumer.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman