redeemable

[Eng. redeem; -able.] 1. Capable of being redeemed; admitting or capable of redemption. 2. Purchasable or payable in gold and silver, and capable of being thus brought back into the po e ion of government or the original promiser or i uer. "Perpetual annuities redeemable at any time." -Smith : Wealth of Nations , bk. v., ch. i. redeemable-rights, s. pl. Law : Those conveyances in property or in security which contain a clause whereby the grantor, or any other person therein named, may, on payment of a certain sum, redeem the lands or subjects conveyed. re-deem-a-ble-ne , subst. [Eng. redeemable; -ne .] The quality or state of being redeemable. rě-deēm'-ēr, s. [Eng. redeem; -er.] 1. One who redeems, ransoms, or delivers; a ransomer, a deliverer. "What belongs to a redeemer, and a Judge of the whole universe." -Water land: Works, i. 84. 2. Specif.: Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World. In the O. Test. Heb., Redeemer is goel, used for the Avenger of Blood (Num. xxxv. 12), but properly a particible of gaal =to redeem; Job (R. V.); Redeemer is in the text, and Vindicator in the margin in the R. V. The word Redeemer does not occur in the New Testament, but the idea does, and on this the theological tenet is founded. [REDEMPTION, II. 3.] *rě-deem'-le , a. [Eng. redeem; -le .] Incapable of being redeemed; not admitting or capable of redemption. "Wretched and redeemle misery." Tragedy of Hoffmann.