redelet

An obsolete form of riddle2. That valiant gentleman you redeem'd from prison. Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, iv. 3. Six you sand years of fear have made you that From which I would redeem you. Tennyson , Prince , iv. 5. In theol., to deliver from sin and spiritual death by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner. See redemption ( c ). I learn to believe in God the Son, who hath redeemed me, and all mankind. Book of Common Prayer , Catechism. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 6. To perform or fulfil, as a promise; make good by performance: as, to redeem an obligation. Had he lived, I doubt not that he would have redeemed the rare promise of his earlier years. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 69. (= OHG. ratilos, MHG. G. ratlos = Icel. rādh lau ), without counsel, unwise, confused, For drede of hire drem [she] deulfulli quaked,... & romed than redli al redles to hure chapel, & godly be-souzt God to gode turne hire sweuen. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2915. Now, Richard the redeles , reweth [have pity] on gou-self, That lawele e leddyn goure lyf, and goure peple bot he. Richard the Redele (ed. Skeat), i. 1. The opponents of Eadward. dreaded that he would "govern by his own unbridled will," that he would be, in a word, what they afterwards called Æthelred - a king redele , or uncounselled. J. R. Green, Conq. of England, p. 339. redeliver (rē-de-liv'èr), v. t. [ of war, of captured goods, etc. But peaceful measures were also employed to procure the redemption of slaves; and money sometimes accomplished what was vainly attempted by the sword. Sumner , Orations, I. 232. Such a sacrifice Alone the fates can deem a fitting price For thy redemption . William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 318. Specifically-( a ) In law , the recovering or disencumbering of property by one who had a right to it subject to the encumbrance or defeasible conveyance, as where a debtor by paying his debt gets back a pledge or a mortgaged estate; also, the right of redeeming and reëntering. ( b ) In com ., payment to the holders by the i uer of notes, bills, or other evidences of debt. (c) In theol ., deliverance from sin and its consequences by the obedience and sacrifice of Christ the Redeemer. The word redemption presupposes that man is in a state of bondage to the powers of evil either spiritual powers external to himself, or evil pa ions and propensities within himself, or both-and that he can be delivered from them only by the sacrifice and suffering of another. This suffering is regarded as the price to redeem the captive. Thus, redemption is substantially equivalent to salvation, but involves the idea of a new and additional right over man acquired by God; and the doctrine of redemption includes the doctrines of atonement, justification, regeneration, and sanctification. The Mounte of Caluery, where our Sauyour Criste was crucyfyed and suffred dethe for our redempcion. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 26. Plantage net, Which held thee dearly as his soul's redemption . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 102. By sin man was principally bound to God, as relates to punishment, because he had principally sinned against God; but he was bound to the devil as a tormentor, to whom he was justly delivered by God's permi ion; but the price of redemption ought to be paid to the principal, not to the intervening agent, and therefore Christ exhibited His death as the price of our redemption to God the Father for our reconciliation, and not to the devil. Durandus , in Owen's Dogmatic Theology, p. 279. redemption Brethren of the Redemption of Captives. See brother. Covenant of redemption, in New Eng. theol. See covenant. Equity of redemption. See equity. redemption ary (re-demp's hon-ā-ri), n.; pl. re demptionaries (-riz). [ None other then such as haue aduentured in the first voyage, or shall become aduenturers in this supply at any time hereafter, are to be admitted in the seid society, but as redemptionaries, which will be very chargeable. Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 176.