redeliverv.
/ˌriːdᵻˈlɪvə/, U.S. /ˌridəˈlɪvər/, /ˌridiˈlɪvər/ 1.
a. transitive. To give back, return, restore.
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the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > give back [verb (transitive)]
yieldc897
agiveOE
again-setOE
restorec1325
acquitc1330
to pay outa1382
refundc1386
to give againa1400
quita1400
restituec1400
reliver1426
surrend1450
redeliver1490
refer1496
render1513
rebail1539
re-present1564
regive1575
to give backa1586
to turn back1587
relate1590
turn1597
returna1632
to hand back1638
redonate1656
reappropriate1659
re-cede1684
revert1688
replace1776
restitute1885
to kick back1926
1490 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 60 When the said beddes be taken downe and delyvered, then I woll that the same bedd be re-delyvered in to the revestre.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxviii All Rollys..were delyueryd vnto the sayde Iohn Mansell, the whiche he there Sealyd and redelyuered them vnto the Chaumberleyne.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E Will you be king againe? If they agree Ile redeliuer all my royaltie.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 125 The Gentleman when the storme was past, re-deliuered her her Iewels.
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iii. i. 23 Go, and force him, to redeliver you the Note.
1702 I. Newton Lett. (1967) IV. 394 Upon the recoinage of the hammered money the grounds on which the Barracks in the Irish Mint are built was redelivered to us.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 438 They will re-deliver it and disavow their officer who accepted it.
1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §142 Deeds..shall be registered..and thereafter re-delivered to the parties with certificates of due registration.
1876 Sun (N.Y.) 20 Nov. 3/1 A Harvard man redelivers the ball by a fine ‘punt’ kick.
1902 Times 1 Oct. 7/4 We had undertake to redeliver the Shan-hai-kwan-Peking portion [of the railway] to its former owners.
1977 D. Barthelme Amateurs 111 I was telling all these people..what kind of ‘and then’ I could contrive..which might redeliver to me my mother.
2004 J. F. Wilson Carriage of Goods by Sea (ed. 5) iv. 92 The charterer is still under an obligation to redeliver the vessel on time.
b. transitive. To release and return (a prisoner or hostage).
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the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > give back [verb (transitive)] > a person
redelivera1513
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxvii He..Redelyuered vnto hym all suche hostages & pledges as his Brother Alphons had before tyme of hym receyued.
1580 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 1st Ser. III. 318 Quhilk Robert, being deliverit..to him, wes alsua immediatlie redeliuerit agane be him to Elizabeth Hay.
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes sig. F4v God..bespake the Whale, To redeliuer Ionah to his hand.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 388 He..should desist from Hostility..and redeliver their Children.
1806 in W. E. Moore Amer. Negro Slavery & Abolition (1980) iv. 97 A judge..must redeliver the black or mulatto person..to the person claiming to hold him or her as a slave.
1835 T. E. Tomlins Law-dict. (ed. 4) II. at Ransom The offender ought to be first imprisoned, and then redelivered or ransomed in consideration of a fine.
1925 J. B. Gillett Six Years with Texas Rangers xviii. 218 I was afraid to put Baca in jail at that place, as..I feared the prison authorities might not redeliver him to me next morning.
2005 G. M. Pinciss Why Shakespeare (2006) v. 74 Pirates who unexpectedly board his ship take only him as captive and agree to redeliver him to his native shores.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > deliver or redeem > again
redeliver1579
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ii. 75 They had bought Pysa in the yeare 1404 of Gabriel Maria Viscounte the lawfull Lord, by whom they were no sooner put in possession of their purchasse, then the Pysans redeliuered them selues by force.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 31 Iudith..that redeliuered, the strong besieged Citie of Bethulia.
1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 242 His mercy..both in fore-warning, and re-deliuering Ahab.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. B6 Those Deities..Will from all dangers, re-deliver me.
1804 A. Aikin Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 iii. 340/2 With no other aid can Holland be redelivered.
1860 F. D. Huntington Christian Believing & Living xxv. 518 Christ Jesus..whose intercessions redeliver his people from all the bondage and misery and waste of sin.
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society > communication > information > reporting > report [verb (transitive)] > something heard
reportc1405
redelivera1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. ii. 139 Osr. Shall I redeliuer [1603,, 1604 deliuer] you ee'n so? Ham. To this effect Sir.
4.
a. transitive. To deliver (a message, speech, etc.) again; to repeat.
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society > communication > information > message > send a message or messenger [verb (transitive)] > again
redeliverc1623
c1623 L. Sharp Let. in Cabala (1654) i. 259 [Elizabeth I] made an excellent Oration to her Armie, which the next day after her Departure, I was commanded to redeliver to all the Armie together, to keep a Publique Fast.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 301 The ready damsel redelivered his instructions to the world in her moments of possession.
1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo iii. 21 The Jewish statesman was the prophet, and his business was to redeliver to each successive generation, a proclamation [etc.].
1936 R. C. Beatty Bayard Taylor v. 83 At Columbia College, however, it [sc. the poem] was thought well of; Taylor was asked to ‘redeliver’ it there in the fall.
1966 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 87 377 Maddalena has in no way changed his interpretation of Sophocles as re-delivering the message of Aeschylus.
1987 J. Epstein Once more around Block 137 I waited while the translator re-delivered it for me in Russian.
b. transitive. To deliver (a letter, parcel, or similar item) again or to a different address.
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1780 H. Croft Love & Madness xxxiv. 77 It happened, one day, in re-delivering a parcel of letters to his master, by mistake he gave him one which he had written to his sweetheart.
1800 C. B. Brown Ormond xix. 216 Roseveldt was commissioned to re-deliver the lute, and to intreat the lady's acceptance of it.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 784 There is again and again re-delivered from the green mail-cart the self-same well-known parcel of twine-entwisted whity-brown!
1964 Times 20 Feb. 18/4 Anyone..can give notice that they wish their mail to be redelivered to another address.
1996 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 26 Dec. b1 But for every person who was home to receive their delivery, another was not. Ford said someone would attempt to redeliver those packages later.
Derivatives
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun]
flux1382
superfluitya1398
outwaxing?1541
excrement1565
recrement1578
profluvium1603
redeliverage1612
evacuation1625
excretion1630
staxis1745
egesta1787
rejectments1818
rejectamenta1834
rejection1838
excreta1857
excretes1883
output1883
ejecta1890
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun]
runningOE
rheuma1398
flux1447
fluxion?1541
defluxion1578
profluvium1603
redeliverage1612
secession1657
flix1667
eluvies1710
rhinorrhoea1846
1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. ii. 13 Neuer eating nor hauing..redeliuerage at the posternes, but ensensiblie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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