Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-DE-MAND-ING, ppr.

Demanding back or again.

RE-DE-MISE', n.

Reconveyance; the transfer of an estate back to the person who has demised it; as, the demise and redemise of an estate in fee simple, fee tail, or for life or years, by mutual leases. – Encyc.

RE-DE-MISE', v.t. [s as z. re and demise.]

To convey or transfer back, as an estate in fee simple, fee tail, for life or a term of years. – Encyc.

RE-DE-MIS'ED, pp.

Reconveyed, as an estate.

RE-DE-MIS'ING, ppr.

Reconveying.

RE-DEMP'TION, n. [Fr.; It. redenzione; Sp. redencion; from L. redemptio. See Redeem.]

1. Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
2. Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
3. Repurchase, as of lands alienated. – Lev. xxv. Jer. xxxii.
4. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged, with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
5. Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
6. In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ. – Dryden. Nelson. In whom we have redemption through his blood. – Eph. i. Col. i.

RE-DEMP'TION-ER, n.

One who redeems himself, or purchases his release from debt or obligation to the master of a ship by his services; or one whose services are sold to pay the expenses of his passage to America.

RE-DEMP'TIVE, a.

Redeeming.

RE-DEMP'TO-RY, a.

Paid for ransom; as, Hector's redemptory price. – Chapman.

RE-DENT'ED, a.

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

RE-DE-SCEND', v.i. [re and descend.]

To descend again.

RE-DE-SCEND'ING, ppr.

Descending again.

RED'E-VA-BLE, a. [Fr.]

Indebted.

RED'EYE, n. [red and eye.]

A fish of a red color, particularly the iris.

RED'GUM, n.

A disease of new-born infants; an eruption of red pimples in early infancy. Good.

RED'-HAIR-ED, a.

Having hair of a red or sandy color.

RED'-HOT, a.

Red with heat; heated to redness; as red-hot iron; red-hot balls.

RED'I-ENT, a. [L. rediens, redeo, to return.]

Returning. – E. H. Smith.

RE-DI-GEST', v.t.

To digest or reduce to form a second time. – Kent.

RE-DI-GEST'ED, pp.

Digested again.

RE-DI-GEST'ING, ppr.

Digesting a second time; reducing again to order.

RED-IN'TE-GRATE, a.

Renewed; restored to wholeness or a perfect state. – Bacon.

RED-IN'TE-GRATE, v.t. [L. redintegro; red, re, and integro, from integer, whole.]

To make whole again; to renew; to restore to a perfect state. – B. Jonson.

RED-IN'TE-GRA-TED, pp.

Renewed; restored to entireness.

RED-IN'TE-GRA-TING, ppr.

Restoring to a perfect state.