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reˈddition Now rare.
[a. F. reddition or ad. L. redditiōn-em, n. of action f. reddĕre to give back, to render. See also rendition.]
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†a. Restoration of something taken or received; also, surrender of a thing, a town, army, etc. Obs.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 167/1 As sone as that office [comes] to your hand..by deth, cession,..reddicion or surrendre. 1593Bell Motives conc. Romish Faith (1605) 31 So as the reddition be of that, which is equivalent and not otherwise due. 1641Prynne Antip. 310 The Bishops [were] apprehended and compelled to a reddition of their possessions. 1643― Sov. Power Parlt. iv. 167 [To be taken] if warlike necessitie require it, yet with a pact of reddition. 1679E. Everard Prot. Princes Europe 26 In examining what hath befallen it.., since that fatal Reddition [of Rochelle]. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 39 They had frequently for some years past solicited.. the reddition of those towns which were held as a pledge. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. 67 The shameful reddition of the Scotch army. 1794Hist. in Ann. Reg. 39 The same motives that operated the reddition of the one effected the surrender of the other.
†b. Law (see quot. 1607). Obs.
1535tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. (1544) 128 A man that hath recouered by assise of mort dauncestour..or by reddycyon or by any maner enquest. 1607Cowell Interpr., Reddicion..is a iudiciall confession, and acknowledgement, that the land or thing in demaund belongeth to the demaundant, or at the least, not to himselfe. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. v. 164 Against whom the heire of the disseisor doth recover by reddition, or by default in a writ of entry.
†c. Retaliation, retort. Obs. rare.
1656Hobbes Six Lessons 55 Whatsoever is added of contumely, either directly, or scommatically, is want of Charity, and uncivil; unless it be done by way of Reddition from him that is first provoked to it.
d. Recompense or restitution. poet.
1929R. Bridges Testament of Beauty iv. 143 And for her soilure make Reddition to Nature.
†2. The application of a comparison, or the clause containing the application. (Common in 17th c.) Obs.
1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 615 This reddition is false, for ye image of the Trinitie..hath no essentiall trueth. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 350 The similitude that the Apostle useth in the verse next before, whereof this is the reddition or part that answereth unto it. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 80 We know that al Parables consiste of two parts, the proposition and Reddition or moral. a1714M. Henry Wks. (1835) II. 356 He does not come to the reddition of the comparison till ver. 27. 1786A. Gib Sacr. Contempl. ii. ii. 87 It is evidently but..one half of a sentence in one side of a comparison. And the other side of it, or what is called the reddition, is not to be found in the verse next following.
3. Rendering, translation. rare.
1609[Bp. W. Barlow] Answ. Nameless Cath. 317 Which is the naturall Interpretation in the sense, though not the grammatical reddition of the words. a1685Knatchbull Annot. N. Test. (1693) 159 In most Interpreters you have in this place..a deficiency in the reddition of the sense. 1950J. N. D. Kelly Early Christian Creeds ii. 36 This solemn rehearsal, or reddition, of the creed before baptism was universally observed in the West. |