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单词 redevable
释义

redevablen.adj.

Forms:

α. 1500s redeuable, 1600s redivable, 1600s–1700s redevable.

β. 1600s redewable, 1600s reduable, 1600s redueable.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French redevable.
Etymology: < Middle French redevable (French redevable ) (adjective) beholden, indebted (c1200 in Old French; c1170 or earlier in Anglo-Norman as redivable in sense ‘obliging, helpful’), (noun) person who is obliged to pay taxes or feudal dues (13th cent. in Old French; the general sense ‘person who has an obligation to another person’ is apparently not paralleled in French until later: 1621) < redevoir to be indebted, to have an obligation in turn (c1160; < re- re- prefix + devoir to owe, to be obliged to: see devoir n.) + -able -able suffix.In β. forms probably influenced by due adj. (compare forms at that entry).
Obsolete.
A. n.
A debtor. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > debtor
debtorc1290
yielder1340
borrowerc1440
ower?c1475
debitor1483
redevable1502
creditee1541
Dr.1663
ticker1753
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xiii. sig. v.iiii Whan..the dettour hath not of Justyce excusacyon that he sholde not..paye, than suche redeuable is contynually in the estate of dedely synne.
B. adj.
Obligated, indebted, beholden.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > gratitude > [adjective] > under obligation
addebteda1400
beholdenc1400
debtedc1425
beholding1484
indebt1504
bounden1530
indebted1553
obliged1596
redevable1596
engaged1665
behoven1880
1596 Cal. Sc. Papers XII. 351 Leist I suld seime ingraitt towards him unto quhome I am sa far redeuable.
1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times 13 I thanke God and your good helpe, unto whom I am redueable for my life.
1647 R. Boyle Let. to Hartlib 8 May in Wks. (1772) I. p. xl To the former..I am also redevable for a very handsome complimental letter.
1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 152 The King would have been redevable unto their prowess.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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