Re`de*mand" (r?`d-m?nd"), v. t. [Pref. re- back, again + demand: cf. F.
redemander.] To demand back; to demand again.
Re`de*mand", n. A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
Re`de*mise" (-m?z"), v. t. To demise back; to convey or transfer back,
as an estate.
Re`de*mise", n. (Law) The transfer of an estate back to the person who
demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See
under Demise.
Re*dem"on*strate (r?*d?m"?n*str?t or r?`d?*m?n"-str?t), v. t. To
demonstrate again, or anew.
Every truth of morals must be redemonstrated in the experience of
the individual man before he is capable of utilizing it as a
constituent of character or a guide in action.
Lowell.
Re*demp"ti*ble (r?*d?mp"t?*b'l), a. Redeemable.
Re-demp"tion (-sh?n), n. [F. rédemption, L. redemptio. See Redeem, and
cf. Ransom.] The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed;
repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of
prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
Specifically: (a) (Law) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or
the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or
conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and
reëntering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under
Equity. (b) (Com.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note,
bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.
(c) (Theol.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death
of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin
and the penalties of God's violated law.
In whom we have redemption through his blood.
Eph. i. 7.
Re*demp"tion*a*ry (-?*r?), n. One who is, or may be, redeemed. [R.]
Hakluyt.
Re*demp"tion*er (-?r), n. 1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or
servitude.
2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold
his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
Re*demp"tion*ist, n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; --
so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of
Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also
Trinitarian.
Re*demp"tive (-t?v), a. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as,
the redemptive work of Christ.
Re*demp"tor*ist (-t?r*?st), n. [F. rédemptoriste, fr. L. redemptor
redeemer, from redinere. See Redeem.] (R.C.Ch.) One of the Congregation
of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus
Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at
Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching
to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by
their rule to engage in the instruction of youth.
Re*demp"to*ry (-t?*r?), a. Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.
"Hector's redemptory price." Chapman.