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Rigor; violence. [Obs.] Gower.

To advise or counsel. [Obs. or Scot.] I rede that our host here shall begin. Chaucer.

To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. Lev. xxv. 29.

Redeemableness.

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 deliver or give back; to return. Ay

A second deliverance.

Act of delivering back.

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

The 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.