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Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.

The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.

One who redeems.

Without rede or counsel. [Obs.]

To deliberate again; to reconsider.

To report; to deliver the answer of. [R.] "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.

A second deliverance.

Act of delivering back.

To demand back; to demand again.

transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

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.

Redeemable.

One who is, or may be, redeemed. [R.] Hakluyt.

One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

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.

Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.

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…

Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. "Hector's redemptory price." Chapman.

Redemption. [Obs.]

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.