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▪ I. redress, n.|rɪˈdrɛs|
Also 4–7 redresse, 5–6 Sc. redres.
[a. AF. redresse, -dresce (14th c.), f. redresser to redress.]
1. Reparation of, satisfaction or compensation for, a wrong sustained or the loss resulting from this.
1375Barbour Bruce xix. 198 The King send oft till ask redress, Bot nocht thar-of redress ther wes. c1400Destr. Troy 2051 Redresse for þe dethe of his dere fader. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 190 He salbe for hir part herd in jugement, and have redress and reformacioun of lawe for hir. 1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 578 To seik redres be the ordinar magistrattis. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 118 But for these foolish Officers, I beseech you, I may haue redresse against them. 1654Bramhall Just Vind. iv. (1661) 75 If the Archbishop failed to do justice, the last complaint must be to the King to give order for redress. 1741Butler Serm. Ho. Lords Wks. 1874 II. 266 Whilst redress is delayed,..wrong subsists. 1784Cowper Task vi. 822 God..would else..endure Dishonour, and be wronged without redress. 1819Shelley Cenci iii. i. 194 Think not But that there is redress where there is wrong, So we be bold enough to seize it. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 119 He who gives credit, and is cheated, will have no redress.
†b. Possibility or means of redress; appeal against a decision. Obs. rare.
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 408 Thereof notice to be made to the Bailies,..[and] they to reforme wt out accion or redresse suche maters. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. II. 406 The king was empowered to issue a proclamation to destroy the lives, or take away the properties, of any of his subjects; and the only redress was to himself in council.
†2. Remedy for, or relief from, some trouble; assistance, aid, help. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 162 The grounde and cause of al my peyn..I wol reherse; not for to haue redresse, But to declare my grounde of heuynesse. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 21 They trusted than to fynde some redresse for themselfe and for their horses. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxvii. i, To nightly anguish thrall, From thee I sought redresse. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. iv. 41 He..ranne to his redresse. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. vi. §4 (1622) 255 There is no sicknesse, but it hath his redresse. 1671Milton Samson 619 My griefs..finding no redress, ferment and rage. 1759Goldsm. Bee No. 3 ⁋2 He who best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires is the most likely person to find redress.
†b. Correction, amendment, or reformation of something wrong. Obs.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 2443 Full many thynges there be that lacketh redresse. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars ii. xliii, So that there were some orderly redresse In those disorders. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 121 Too long have we driven off the applying of our redress. 1764Museum Rust. III. 286 The pernicious effects, to farmers, of this abominable practice, are notorious, and cry aloud for redress.
†c. In phr. beyond redress, past redress, without redress: beyond the possibility of remedy, aid, or amendment. Obs.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. iii. 171 Things past redresse, are now with me past care. 1697Dryden æneid v. 771 As the Cretan Labyrinth of old,..Involv'd the weary feet, without redress. 1700J. Jackson in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 232 And were immediately smothered without redress. 1764Goldsm. Hist. Eng. in Lett. (1772) II. 189 Damaged their transports beyond redress.
†3.
a. With a and pl. A means or way of redress; an act or arrangement whereby a person or thing is redressed; an amendment, improvement. Obs.
1472–5Rolls of Parlt. VI. 163/1 That the Lordes..have full auctorite, to discusse and set theryn a redresse after their discretions. 1544Supplic. to Hen. VIII (E.E.T.S.) 57 Grant..that he wyll ernestly go a boute to se a redresse a monge them. 1547Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 77 Redressis suld be maid of all dampnaiges. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 150 So the father..causeth a redresse and amendement in his childe. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1851) 194 (Deut. xxiv. 1, 2), The guiltles therfore wert not depriv'd thir needful redresses. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 33 The sick Man just expiring for want of a speedy Redress by..proper Remedies.
†b. One who, or that which, affords redress.
c1530Crt. of Love 591 They seid: Venus, redresse of all division, Goddes eterne [etc.]. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 650/1 Is not the swoord the most violent redress that may be used for any evill? 1697Dryden æneid i. 838 Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
4. Const. of. The act of redressing; correction or amendment of a thing, state, etc.
1538Starkey England ii. i. 156 To theyr cure schal be commyttyd the redresse of many grete dyseasys in thys polytyke body. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 30 For the redresse of many casualties chancing in the night. 1643Ord. Parlt. regul. Print. in Milton's Areop. (Arb.) 26 The bill in preparation, for redresse of the said disorders. 1709Steele Tatler No. 12 ⁋16 There might be some Hopes of Redress of these Grievances. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 121 Arming familiar things To the redress of an unwonted crime. 1874Green Short Hist. iii. §5. 138 The great principle that redress of wrongs precedes a grant to the Crown.
▪ II. redress, v.1|rɪˈdrɛs|
Also 4 redresce, 4–7 redresse, 5–6 Sc. redres, (5 ra-).
[ad. F. redresser, OF. redrecier, -drechier, etc. = Sp. redereçar, It. ridirizzare: see re- and dress v.]
†1. trans. To set (a person or thing) upright again; to raise again to an erect position. Also fig. to set up again, restore, re-establish. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. ii. 89 (Camb. MS.), As thise leches ben wont to hopyn of sike folk, whan they aperceyuen þat nature is redressed [L. erectæ] and withstondith to the maledie. 1481Caxton Godfrey cxcviii. 289 Incontinent he redressyd and reysed on heygthe his baner alle blody. c1500Melusine 290 [They] supposed wel to haue redressed thadmyrall vpon his hors but it was for nought, For he was deed. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iv. 34 The Catholique Romishe Religion shall bee redressed..in the Cities and places..where it is banished. 1643Prynne Popish R. Favourite 46 He caused the Image of the Crosse to be redressed, and that men should not foule it under their feete. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 107 Cut through all the Collateral Roots, till..you can inforce him upon one side, so as to come..at the Tap-Root; cut that off, redress your Tree, and so let it stand. [Copied in Mortimer's Husb. (1721) II. 69, and other works.] 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 133 Some ambitious Architect..being call'd perhaps to prop a Roof, redress a leaning Wall [etc.].
†b. refl. To raise (oneself) again; to reassume an upright posture. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 920 (969) Right as floures..stoupen in hire stalk lowe, Redressen hem a-yen þe sonne bryght. c1450Merlin 328 As soone as the spere was spente the kynge Boors redressed hym in his sadell. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Redressing, Trees and other plants have a natural faculty of redressing themselves, when, by any external cause, they are forced out of the perpendicular.
†c. intr. To rise, become erect. Obs.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. xv, Thou oughtest not to despyse me, Galathee, thoughe my heere redresse a lytyl & brustle. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith ii. in Sylvester's Du Bartas (1621) 700 Yet like the valiant Palme they did sustaine Their peisant weight, redressing vp againe.
†2. To set up, erect, build. Obs. rare—1.
1481Caxton Godfrey clxxix. 264 The other that were nyghe the corner..redressyd a castel of tree moche hye.
†b. ? To spread out. Obs. rare—1.
c1450Lonelich Grail xli. 276 Thanne Josephes bothe Schirte and water gan blesse, And Anon God gan it for to Redresse, and wax moche largere hem vntylle.
†3. To put right again, repair, mend (a house or wall). Obs.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. lxv, How the kyng Aurilambros let amend and redresse the hous of Amlesbury. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 47 Disposinge himselfe to the beutifienge of the cittee of London, [he] redressed the walles,..beinge ruinus throughe yeares, strengtheninge the same with divers turrets.
†4. fig. To bring back (a person) to the right course; to correct or direct aright. Obs.
c1366Chaucer A.B.C. 129 Redresse me mooder and me chastise. c1400Rom. Rose 3423, I wole swere for evermo To be redressid at youre likyng, If I trespasse in ony thyng. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 358 An Emperoure..Whom no mannes counsel might redres. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 263 Anger out not to be in any Prince..toward his equal, for he might be redressed with power. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 174 You..Would see your Towne..By selfe-same censures to be soone redrest. 1689Popple tr. Locke's 1st Let. Toleration L.'s Wks. 1727 II. 235 In teaching, instructing, and redressing the Erroneous by Reason.
†b. Hunting. To bring back (the hounds or deer) to the proper course. Obs.
c1400Master of Game Prol. (MS. Digby 182), He hath ynogh at done..to loke wherafter he hunteth..and redresse and bryng his houndes into right whann thei haue envoised or fallen in to rascall. 1659Howell Vocab. iii, To redresse the deer, or putt her off her changes;..redresser le cerf. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To redress a Stag, (a Term in Hunting) to put him off his changes.
†c. To direct or amend (one's acts or ways). Obs.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 158 To the Offyce of Prudencia appendyth the dedis of all othyr vertues redresse. 1560Bible (Genev.) Ps. cxix. 9 Wherewith shal a yong man redresse his waie? ― Jer. vii. 7 If you amend and redresse your waies and your workes. [Hence in 16–17th c. writers, down to c 1635.]
†5. To direct or address (a thing) to a destination or in a specified course. Also refl. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋965 Preyeres is for to seyn a pitous wyl of herte that redresseth it in god. 1390Gower Conf. III. 177 So were it good to taken hiede That ferst a king his oghne dede Betwen the vertu and the vice Redresce. c1440Gesta Rom. lii. 230 (Harl. MS.), This hope owithe to be Redressid vnto god. 1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 484/1 That the same Duches have..such Writtes and Warantes.., directed or redressed to the seid Custumers.
†b. intr. and refl. To address oneself to a person or place. Obs. rare.
c1460Play Sacram. 607 All manar off men yt haue any syknes To master brentberecly loke yt yow redresse. c1598Rollock Passion vi. (1616) 58 A man that redresses himselfe to a kingdome, would euer take delite to speake of it.
†c. To guide or lead (a person) to oneself. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 113 b, She dide do make fires and a light..for to redresse Iason and Argos to herward.
†6. To put (things) in order; to arrange. Obs.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. v. 60 Lete the Iugement be yeuen as ryght wylle rewarden and soo may fynal pees be redressyd bitwene bothe partes. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 253 The Romanes didde redresse and redacte these lawes of Salon in to x tables. c1500For to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. 371 Thenne the kerver shall goo unto the cuppebord, and redresse and ordeyn wafers in to towayles. c1500Doctr. Gd. Servaunts (Percy Soc.) 6 Erly in the mornynge se ye ryse, Your werke and laboure to redresse. c1585R. Browne Answ. Cartwright 15 They redresse and order matters by money, Brybes, Fees, Ciuill penaltyes.
†b. To bring back to the proper order; to shift to the proper place. Obs. rare.
c1500Melusine 193 The two bretheren..went fro bataill to batayll and there as fawte was of ordynaunce, they redressed theire peple to it. 1588J. Mellis Briefe Instr. G j, If any parcell were put by error in any other parcell there as it should not bee, and that you would redresse it vnto the proper place there it ought to be set.
†c. To make conformable to something. Obs.
1538Starkey England ii. ii. 182 Thys conseyl schold euer be occasyon to redresse the affectys of the prynce to the ordur of the law.
7.
†a. To restore or bring back (a thing or person) to a proper state; to put right, or in good order, again; to mend, repair. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 709 Another Theban mayden..ffor oon of Macidonye hadde hire oppressed She with hire deeth hir maydenhede redressed. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 241 Goynge afor mette dryuth away the ventositeis, redressith the body. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 206/2 In lystris was a contracte which he losed and redressid. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 36 Sad Aesculapius far apart Emprisond was..For that Hyppolytus rent corse he did redresse. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. ii. 7 The ship redrest as well as time and place could afford, we still made forward.
†b. To put (a matter, or state of things) right again; to reform, amend, improve. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 375 Whan that the cas required it, The commune profit koude she redresse. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 20 Alle thynges may be redresshed and reformed, saue euil dedis. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 135 The estate of relligion and orders of priesthoode were newlie sifted and redressed. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 182 b, That they redresse and pourge their churches. 1648Milton Ps. lxxxii. 26 Rise God, judge thou the earth in might, This wicked earth redress. 1716Pope Iliad vi. 91 Now had..frighted Troy within her Walls retir'd; Had not sage Helenus her State redrest. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 176 E'en here content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm.
c. To correct, emend. rare.
1710Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. iii. ii. 325 Nor am I out of my own Possession, whilst there is a Person left within; who has Power to dispute the Appearances, and redress the Imagination. 1796Hamilton in Washington's Writ. (1892) XIII. 190 note, You mentioned to me your wish, that I should redress a certain paper, which you had prepared. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 73 The material estimate of worth should be redressed by a moral standard.
d. To adjust again. (Chiefly with balance.)
1847Emerson Poems (1857) 213 [He] sees aloft the red right arm Redress the eternal scales. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 44 Unless the balance had been redressed by a great transfer of power from the crown to the parliament. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §5. 197 At an earlier time the personal greatness of Edward might have redressed the balance.
†8. To restore (a person) to happiness or prosperity; to save, deliver from misery, death, etc. Obs.
a1425Cursor M. 22737 (Trin.) Whenne he coom furst vs to redresse He coom al wiþ mekenesse. 14..Hymn Virg. 25 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 82 Redres mans sowle from alle mysery. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour G vj, Saint Eustace..lost goodes and children for the space of xiii yere and then god redressed hym ageyne. 1535Goodly Prymer (1834) 132 Wash me O Lord, in his blood,..redress me in his resurrection. a1550in Dunbar's Wks. (S.T.S.) 324 The hevynnis King is cled in our nature, Ws fro the deth with ransoun for to redress. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxc. 1183 So as hee may..not onely forgiue vs all our sinnes,..but also rid vs cleane of them, and redresse vs.
9. To set (a person) right, by obtaining, or (more rarely) giving, satisfaction or compensation for the wrong or loss sustained.
c1430Chev. Assigne 204 Go brynge hym to his fader courte... Ryȝte by þe mydday to redresse his moder. 1574Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 368 That thai suld redres all Scottismen offendit be thame. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 109 They came..to be redressed by him for divers grievances. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. i. 59 'Tis thine, O King, the afflicted to redress. 1753Foote Englishm. in Paris ii. Wks. 1799 I. 55, I indeed have wrong'd, but will redress you. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 491 If our gracious sovereign does not order us to be redressed in fifty-four hours, such steps will be taken, as will astonish our dear countrymen. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. i. ii. 339 You..will redress Him, whom the laws of discipline and Venice Permit not to protect himself. 1863S. L. J. Life in South I. xix. 375 How am I to be redressed for the loss of my property?
refl.1860L. V. Harcourt Diaries G. Rose I. 168 The time had..arrived for the people to redress themselves.
10. To remedy or remove (trouble or distress of any kind).
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 192 Who may me helpe, who may my harm redresse. c1375Canticum de Creatione 953 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 136 God shel come..And shel redressen mannes nede In riȝt and in leute. c1410Hoccleve Mother of God 41 Swich an advocatrice who can dyvyne..our grieves to redresse. c1500Lancelot 1359 For thyne estat is gewyne to Redress Thar ned. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 106, I can neither remember our miseries without griefe, nor redresse our mishaps without grones. 1617Fletcher Valent. ii. iii, Their duty And ready service shall redress their needs. 1714Spect. No. 611 ⁋2, I flatter my self, you will..if possible, redress a Misfortune my self and several others of my Sex lie under. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 214 Every want that stimulates the breast Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Eloquence Wks. (Bohn) III. 25 There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
b. To cure, heal, relieve (a disease, wound, etc.). Also in fig. context.
1470–85Malory Arthur xii. xii, Syr Tristram now be we mette for or we departe we wille redresse our old sores. a1529Skelton Knowl., acquaint., etc. 8 Allectuary arrectyd to redres These feuerous axys, the dedely wo and payne [etc.]. a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 45 The frosty snowes may not redresse my heat. 1601Daniel Civ. Wars vii. lxxii, Or, whether 'tis not time we should have rest And this confusion, and our wounds redrest. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 383 Which may be to thee instead of..eyesalve to redresse thy blindnesse. a1687Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Poems (1775) 143 Such carbuncles..As no Hungarian water can redress. 1784Cowper Task vi. 521 The frenzy of the brain may be redressed By medicine well applied. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 160/2 This is a species of fracture..which can..be readily redressed.
†c. To remove, take away (a disability). Obs.
1560J. Daus Sleidane's Comm. 290 To pardon his fault, to redresse the outlawery dew for his offence.
†d. To put away, get over (sorrow). Obs.
1583Green Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 240 Mamilia had by the space of a weeke..something redressed her sorrow.
11. To set right, repair, rectify (something suffered or complained of):
a. a wrong.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 959 (1008) Þer-with mene I fynally the peyne,..Fully to slen and euery wrong redresse. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 158 To hym longyth nedes to Esplete,..wronges to redresse. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 224 It slakis ire off wrang thai suld radres. 1551Crowley Pleas. & Pain 308, I woulde se all theyr wrongis redreste. 1660Waller To the King on his return 62 Armies and fleets..Owned their great Sovereign, and redressed his wrong. 1749Smollett Regicide iii. viii, The sword of Athol Was never drawn but to redress the wrongs His country suffer'd. 1784Cowper Task iv. 795 A heart To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs. 1862Shirley (J. Skelton) Nugæ Crit. x. 444 The wrong indeed was redressed, as far as redress was possible.
absol.1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 47 Speake, strike, redresse. Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake.
b. damage, injury, etc.
c1400Destr. Troy 4917 [To] redresse vs the domage, þat he don has. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. v. 126 Those bitter Iniuries..I doubt not, but with Honor to redresse. 1628Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 16 He hoped the King of England would redresse some iniuries done to subiectes of this state by some of his. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiii. 209 It rested with Austria to prevent or redress the threatened outrage. 1878Princess Alice Mem. (1884) 367 The Opposition seems to me..to have done her a greater harm than can ever be redressed.
c. a grievance or complaint.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. i. 170 This containes our generall Grieuances: Each several Article herein redress'd [etc.]. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 8. 52, [I] bring a Complaint before you, which it is your Province to redress. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxvi. 293 Some persons..believed that it would be safer to prevent than to redress grievances. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxi, At present it was not understood that he had redressed any grievances.
12. To correct, amend, reform or do away with (a bad or faulty state of things, now esp. an abuse).
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 696 They wolde han writen of men more wikkednesse Than all the mark of Adam may redresse. 1390Gower Conf. III. 268 To redresce At hom the grete unrihtwisnesse. 1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 149/2 To redresse the defaultes of the said maire and constables. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 71 The general fautys and mysordurys.., wych by commyn counseyle and gud pollycy may be redressyd. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 130 Our detestable cursings..which very few magistrates..go about to redresse. 1634H. R. Salerne's Regim. 33 For such Wines redresse and amend the coldnesse of Complexion. 1675Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull Wks. 1872–5 I. 258 The Atheism, Profanenesse, and Impiety among the people were one point to be redressed. 1712Addison Spect. No. 446 ⁋4 That the Lewdness of our Theatre should be..so well exposed, and so little redressed. 1781Cowper Table T. 632 Ever anxious to redress The abuses of her sacred charge. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ii. 77 Spiritual despotism is necessarily redressed or excluded when theology is reformed. 1874Green Short Hist. v. §5. 254 In a vigorous campaign he pacified Ireland while redressing the abuses of its government.
†b. To settle (discord or debate). Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 191 Ȝif þere fil ony discord bytwene the tweyn, þe þridde schulde redresse it. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 [If] eny debat chaunselich falle.., þe same maistres and breþeren shul do her diligence trewly to redresse it.
†c. To repair the want of. Obs. rare—1.
1765Blackstone Comm. I. 437 The consent of the mother or guardians, if unreasonably withheld, might be redressed and supplied by the judge.
†13. To repair (an action); to atone for (a misdeed or offence). Obs.
c1325Know Thyself 56 in E.E.P. (1862) 131 Who-so greueþ hym is worþi to go To helle fuyr but he hit redres. 1390Gower Conf. I. 241, I am al redy to redresce The gilt of which I me confesse. c1400Rom. Rose 3302 And eke thee caste, If that thou maist, to gete thee defence For to redresse thi first offence. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §18 Vnlawful vsurpation a penitent affection must redresse.
†14. Sc.
a. To restore, give back. Obs. rare.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. ii. (S.T.S.) I. 134 Gif þe gudis of tarquinis war nocht redressit [L. reddita]. 1536― Cron. Scot. (1821) II. 328 The nobillis of Ingland..causit all the saidis guddis to be redressit.
†b. To make good (a bill). Obs.
1565[see redressing vbl. n.1]. 1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 307 He wilbe compellit to answer and redresse the said bill.
†15. ? To win or take by force. Obs. rare—1.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxvi. 153 The Cleonæan Lyons spoyles for her I would redresse. I would the Lernan Hydras heads with sword and fire suppress.
Hence reˈdressed ppl. a.1, reˈdressing ppl. a.
1845–6De Quincey Shelley Wks. 1857 VI. 3 note, The boyish period in which these redressing corrections occurred to me. 1893Sloane Stand. Electr. Dict. 164 Current, Rectified... Synonym—Redressed Current.
▪ III. redress, v.2|riːˈdrɛs|
Also re-dress.
[re- 5 a.]
To dress again, in senses of the vb.
1739G. Ogle Gualtherus & Griselda 88 Griselda may redress her, or retire. 1834Fraser's Mag. IX. 609 Yet was Chaucer to him a poet whom he might re-dress with advantage. 1847Singer Wayland Smith p. xxxix, The maidens, not being able to re-dress themselves, utter loud cries of terror. 1859Six Yrs. Trav. Russia II. v. 67 It appears that the Russians re-dress all furs that they import. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 560 But I..shut up the doors and windows..while I am dressing, or rather redressing.
Hence reˈdressed ppl. a.2
1872City Press 6 Apr., The Engineers had reported that this street could be repaved with re-dressed stone. |