redemptive ( p silent)

[Lat. redempt (us), pa. par. of redimo to redeem (q. v.); Eng. suff. -ive.] Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming. Rě-děmp-tor-ist ( p silent), s. [Lat. Red empt or =the Redeemer; see def.] Church Hist. ( pl.): The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787), at Scala, in 1732. The Institute was approved in 1749 by Pope Benedict XIV., who changed its original title-the Congregation of the Most Holy Savior-to that by which it is now known. The members take the three simple, but perpetual, vows, and a fourth, of perseverance in the Institute till death. Their principal object is the preaching of mi ions and retreats to all cla es of Roman Catholics, giving prefer ance to the ignorant and neglected. Their dre is a black It is substantially the dre worn by the secular clergy in Naples in the first half of the eighteenth century. "They should redeliver back again to him the lands serge ca ock, with cloth girdle and rosary beads, they had gotten before." -North: Plutarch, p. 89. 2. To deliver or set free a second time. 13. To report. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so?"- Shakesp .: Hamlet, v. 4. rē-dě-liv-er-ançe, s. [Pref. re-, and English deliverance (q. v.).] A second delivery or deliver ance.