Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-MU'NER-ATE
RE-MU'NER-A-BLERE-MU'NER-A-TED
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.
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