Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-MU'NER-ATE, v.t. [L. remunero; re and munero, from munus, a gift.]

To reward; to recompense; to requite; in a good sense; to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense or other sacrifice; as, to remunerate the troops of an army for their services and sufferings; to remunerate men for labor. The pious sufferer in this life will be remunerated in the life to come.