v. t.
To advise or counsel.
v. t.
To interpret; to explain.
n.
Advice; counsel; suggestion.
n.
A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Redeem
v. t.
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
v. t.
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
v. t.
To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
v. t.
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
v. t.
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
v. t.
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
v. t.
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
a.
Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.
a.
Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.
n.
The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
n.
Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
a.
Without rede or counsel.
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