单词 | reddition |
释义 | redditionn. Now rare. 1. a. Restoration of something taken or received; surrender of a thing (esp. a town, an army, etc.). Cf. rendition n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun] restitutiona1325 restoringa1382 restorance1389 restaurancea1400 restorec1400 reddition1449 relivery1463 restorementa1500 restorative?c1500 redeliverya1513 rendering1523 return1534 redeliverance1535 rembursement1579 retribution1583 restoration1608 restoral1611 repetition1649 returnal1651 rendition1652 regift1658 retradition1875 kickback1932 society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] > surrender deliverancea1387 appointmenta1513 composition1523 dedition1523 rendering1523 surrender?a1525 fall1535 render1548 rendry1600 rendition1601 capitulation1604 recapitulation1641 reddition1641 surrendering1648 capitulating1734 1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 167/1 As sone as that Office [comes] to your hand..by deth, cession,..reddicion or surrendre. 1593 T. Bell Motives Romish Faith ii. ii. 31 So as the reddition be of that, which is equiualent and not otherwise due. 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 310 The Bishops [were] apprehended and compelled to a reddition of their possessions. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iv. 167 [To be taken] if warlike necessitie require it, yet with a pact of reddition. 1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 26 In examining what hath befallen it.., since that fatal Reddition [of Rochelle]. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 39 They had frequently for some years past solicited..the reddition of those towns which were held as a pledge. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 67 The shameful reddition of the Scotch army. 1794 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 39 The same motives that operated the reddition of the one effected the surrender of the other. 1839 Times 4 June 6/4 We conceive it to be strange that the French Government does not take active steps for attaining the reddition of the men mentioned above from the Russian authorities. 1860 Times 14 Jan. 8/4 About one-half of the Northern States have..made it a criminal and penal offence to give any assistance in the reddition of fugitive slaves. 1908 J. H. Ramsay Dawn of Constit. xxxiii. 516 Refusing to make good the stipulated reddition of the Castle of Mauléon-Soule in the Pyrenees. ΚΠ 1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. ccv Frome hens forthe that writ [of redisseisin] shall haue place for them that haue recouered by defaut reddicyon or other wyse without recognicion of assise or iurry. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 24 The saide Manour..to be recovered by fainte pleader, reddicion or other fraude or covyne. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Kkk1v/2 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. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §379. 164 Against whom the heire of the disseisor doth recover by reddition, or by default in a writ of entry. 1721 M. Dutton Office & Authority Sheriffs 505 Those that recover by Default, Reddition or otherwise, with Recognition of Assizes or Juries, shall have Writs of Redisseisin as well as those which recover by Assize of Nouvel Disseisin, Mortdancestor, or other juries. 1738 R. Manby Law & Pract. Fines & Recoveries 333 Where he that recover'd by Reddition or Default had Right, there neither the Common Law, nor the said Stat. of Westm. 2. extended to it. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > retaliation or retribution yieldinga1340 talion1412 retributiona1425 recompensec1425 recompensationa1513 requitement1548 retaliation1581 lex talionis1597 requital1597 retaling1597 taliationa1601 law of retalion1607 talio1611 retail1615 retorsion1637 repercussion1641 retributing1645 reddition1656 retortion1762 poetical justice1796 utu1828 retort1836 quits1865 poetic justice1991 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons vi. 55 in Elements Philos. 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. poetic. Recompense, restitution. rare. ΚΠ 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 143 And for her soilure make Reddition to Nature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > simile > application of a comparison reddition1579 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 615 This reddition is false, for ye image of the Trinitie..hath no essentiall trueth. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 350 The similitude that the Apostle useth in the verse next before, whereof this is the reddition or part that answereth unto it. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 80 We know that al Parables consiste of two parts, the proposition and Reddition or moral. a1714 M. Henry Wks. (1835) II. 356 He does not come to the reddition of the comparison till ver. 27. 1786 A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred 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. 1833 Biblical Repertory Oct. 501 Much in the parables serves only for poetic ornament..and in the reddition of the similitude needs not to be noticed and demands no interpretation, as it answers to no anti-type. 3. Translation, rendering; (also) an instance of this. Cf. rendition n. 5.In quot. 1956: an expansion of an abbreviation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] remeninga1382 translatinga1382 translationa1382 interpretation1382 interpretingc1384 reducing?a1425 traductiona1533 conversion1586 reddition1609 renderinga1653 rendition1653 transposition1653 transfusion1700 gloss1756 reduction1826 transc1877 machine-aided translation1966 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 317 Which is the naturall Interpretation in the sense, though not the grammatical reddition of the words. 1693 tr. N. Knatchbull Annot. New Test. 159 In most Interpreters you have in this place..a deficiency in the reddition of the sense. 1737 T. Morell in G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales (new ed.) 41 Mr Betterton, in his Reddition of this Passage, seems to excuse the Physician for not studying the Bible, because it was at that Time prohibited the Laity. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Wirry-cow This is much of a piece with his reddition of a passage in the preceding page. 1898 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 27 230 One of the earliest redditions of St. John's Gospel into the Anglo-Saxon tongue, was made from the Latin, it is thought by Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, who died in 709. 1956 Novum Testamentum 1 195 A faulty reddition of the abbreviation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1449 |
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