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▪ I. † reˈdact, pa. pple. Obs.
[ad. L. redact-us, pa. pple. of redigĕre: see next.]
1. Brought together in a written form.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 255 The grete Pompeius was the firste whiche willede to haue redacte the lawes in to bokes. Ibid. VII. 309 Whiche descripcion [of England] was redacte into oon volume.
2. Brought or reduced into (in), to a state, condition, etc., or under one's power.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 51 Ynglonde was redacte iiij. tymes into servitute. 1502in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 163 So the[y] be redacte vnder the pour of the Soudane. 1513Ballad in Bradshaw's St. Werburge 202 Thy bretherne were..With diuers of thy kynne..Redact in the catholique papall. 1539in Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 419 Wales is redact to that state that one thief taketh another, and one cow keepeth another. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 528 Sa at all time I bruik my priuilage, That it be not redact vnto thirlage.
b. Of material things: Reduced to or into ashes, dust, etc.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 119 Whiche apples y-taken be redacte vn to esches. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. iv. D. iij, Then was y⊇ test or potsherd, the brasse, gold & sylver redacte into duste. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. (1568) 29 b, Take drie Camomill redact into powder.
▪ II. redact, v.|rɪˈdækt|
Also pa. tense 5 redact.
[f. L. redact-, ppl. stem of redigĕre to bring back, collect, reduce, etc., f. re(d)- re- + agĕre to drive, etc.: see act v. The form redact for the pa. tense (cf. prec.) is frequent in the later version of Higden. In its mod. use, the verb has been reintroduced in the 19th c. (after redaction); Ash (1775) and Todd (1818) mark it as ‘not used’.]
†1. trans. To bring (matter of reasoning or discourse) into or to a certain form; to put together in writing. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 251 Aristotille redacte hit [logic] in an arte. Ibid. 253 The Romanes didde redresse and redacte these lawes of Salon [sic] in to x. tables. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health Y vj b, The aphorismes of Hippocrates redacted vnto a certayne order. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *iiij b, They have redacted them together, because they might the easyer be vnderstoode. 1639Drummond Conv. w. B. Jonson Wks. (1711) 225 Ben Johnson..cursed Petrarch for redacting verses into sonnets.
†b. To bring or insert (a thing) into a scheme or body. Obs. rare.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 451/1 Although this law is not redacted into y⊇ body of the law, yet..it is not abrogated.
†c. To reduce (a subject) to a person's understanding. Obs. rare.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. To Rdr. 1 b, Here the whole Pharmaceutical Art is denuded, and redacted to the clear intelligence of the meanest capacity.
†2. To bring together into one body. Obs.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 209 After that Romulus redacte alle the cites in to oon. Ibid. II. 273 Augustus..redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde. 1550Veron Godly Sayings (1846) 50 Those things whiche can be redacted into some one thynge of manye.
†3. To reduce (a person or thing) to, into a certain state, condition, or action. Also rarely with inf. Obs. (Common in 17th c., esp. Sc.)
1542Becon News out of Heaven Wks. 1564 I. 13 Ye see into how miserable a case ye are redacted and fallen by the sin of Adam. 1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 90 In respect of the greatt desolatioun that the commonweill was redactit into. 1637Monro Exped. i. 3 The Baron of Fowles, being..a litle prodigall in his spending, redacted his estate to a weeke point. 1678Trans. Crt. Spain ii. 121 They will be ever redacted to shift for that where of they shall stand in need. 1731Plain Reas. Presbyt. Dissent. 115 Poor people are squeezed and redacted to most pinching straits, thro' gentlemen's racking their rents.
†b. To reduce (a material thing) to a certain form. Obs. rare.
1634Bp. Hall Character of Man (1635) 26 Metalls whereby they might make use of those plants, and redact them to any forme or instruments of work, were yet..to seek.
4. In modern use:
a. To draw up, frame (a statement, decree, etc.).
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. ii, The oath is redacted; pronounced aloud by President Bailly. 1845― Cromwell (1871) I. 101 The House of Commons..was busy redacting a ‘Protestation’. 1860W. G. Clark in Vac. Tour. 46 A council of ministers was held in the palace..: they were engaged in redacting the two proclamations.
b. To put (matter) into proper literary form; to work up, arrange, or edit.
1851Carlyle Sterling iii. v, Sterling..redacts it in a Times leader. 1884Times 1 Nov. 9 Their observations are recorded, tabulated, digested, and redacted in every possible way.
Hence reˈdacted ppl. a.
1676Coles, Redacted, forced back. 1898G. B. Gray in Expositor May 347 The present redacted text of Genesis. |