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To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. For never can I deem him less him less than god. Dryden.

A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.

To award; to adjudge. [Obs.] "Unto him they did addeem the prise." Spenser.

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall. Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you An idle meteor. J. Webster.

The state or quality of being irredeemable; irredeemableness.

Not redeemable; that can not be redeemed; not payable in gold or silver, as a bond; -- used especially of such government notes, issued as currency, as are not convertible into coin at the pleasure of the holder. -- Ir`re*deem"a*ble*ness, adv.

To misjudge. [Obs.] Milton.

ated 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.

Not redeemed.

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. Accounting that God was able to raise him up. Heb. xi. 19.

To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.

To redeem. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.