remandn.
/rᵻˈmɑːnd/, /rᵻˈmand/, U.S. /rəˈmænd/, /riˈmænd/ 1. An act of referring, sending, or bringing somebody or something back; a recall. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > re-imprisonment or remand
remand1601
recommittal1793
reimprisonment1798
recommitment1817
reinternment1909
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > summons or summoning > summoning back
again-calling1417
revocation?a1439
reclaima1450
revoke1498
reappeal1550
recall1586
remand1601
recallment1650
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 90 Reuiewes..returned with a remaund semblable.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xi. 60 The end of the dialogue between the priest, and the deuil, is a remaund of the deuil to his lodge.
1665 D. Lloyd States-men & Favourites Eng. 327 Once did Scotland request his remand, because he would have overturned their Constitution.
1771 Mrs. Harris in Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 211 You will remain at Madrid till the messenger with your remand arrives, and save yourself the fatigue of a double journey.
II. Law: see remand v. II.
2. Recommittal of an accused person to custody; the state of being recommitted to custody; an instance of this. Often in on remand.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody > consigning to > again
remanding1648
recommittal1793
recommitment1817
remand1841
1841 Lancet 17 Apr. 126/1 Upon this evidence the prisoners were remanded; and as the man continued in the same state for a long time, their remand occurred several times.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liv. 524 There was enough against him to make it my duty to take him, and get him kept under remand.
1864 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. A notorious thief..brought up on remand.
1884 Manch. Examiner 22 May 5/1 Evidence was taken simply to justify a remand.
1933 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 32 292 Equally it is of importance that the criminal atmosphere should be avoided in cases of men on remand for trial for grave offences.
1983 K. P. H. Young Coping in Crisis (1991) iii. 35 Ah Lai decided to listen to the worker's explanation regarding her remand and court hearing.
2001 J. C. Grimwood Pashazade (2003) xlv. 288 Disarm yourself, disarm your enemy , said a tired voice in his head. It sounded cracker-barrel, but Raf recognized it as a koan from the old rasta he'd trained with while on remand.
3. A prisoner on remand.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > remanded
remand1859
1859 Times 4 Jan. 9/2 The period that each prisoner remains at Newgate is, on average, 16 days, and, since the remands have been sent us, probably less.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Sept. 4/1 It would be more merciful in most cases to order the..remand a sound birching.
1941 Times 11 Mar. 2/3 In many cases juvenile courts are not being provided with the facilities for remands in custody which they have a right to expect.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard i. 35 The door used by remands, down near the witness box.
2002 M.Leech & D. Cheney Prisons Handbk. (ed. 6) 266/2 Clothes change for Remands Mon-Fri mornings only, no slippers.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
remand prison n.
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1847 5th Rep. Commissioners Pentonville Prison App. B. 35 in Parl. Papers XXX. 481 He has made acquaintances in the streets, in the remand prisons, or in some low places.
1920 Times 3 Aug. 7/2 Mrs. Bamberger was now in a fit state of health to appear in Court and for subsequent detention in a remand prison.
2009 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 11 Mar. 11 The remand prison was in private hands, run by an Australian subsidiary of giant United States prison operator GEO.
remand prisoner n.
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1852 J. Galwey in Ann. Rep. Inspector Govt. Prisons in Ireland 63 With the exception of making the remand prisoners pay continuous rent, or of removing them to a special class, I do not see any improvement that can be suggested in these rules.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 2/1 All the men you see in this yard are remand prisoners.
1977 Belfast Tel. 19 Jan. 4/8 Two visitors to republican prisoners in Crumlin Road jail had been..attacked by loyalist gangs.., a remand prisoner claimed today.
2006 M. S. Corcoran Out of Order ix. 182 Elizabeth..was a remand prisoner at Armagh before becoming PIRA commanding officer at Maghaberry.
remand warrant n.
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1866 Rep. Admin. Madras Presidency App. II p.xxvii (heading) Number of miscellaneous processes including remand warrants, levy of distress, committals, &c.
1963 J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1964) i. 12 Wes sits in the Psychiatric Hospital on an attorney general's remand warrant.
2006 J. Ogle & D. Bass What Manner of Man 278 Pembroke Jail..held a modest number of inmates, mostly on remand warrants.
C2.
remand centre n. chiefly British, Canadian, and Australian an institution to which persons are remanded to await trial or sentencing.In Great Britain before 1967, remand centres were used only for young persons between the ages of 14 and 21.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up > for juveniles
remand home1901
remand centre1937
detention centre1948
juvie1967
1937 Times 5 June 8/3 He suggested that there ought to be in every county town a central remand centre.
1948 Criminal Justice Act 11 & 12 Geo. VI c. 58 s. 48(1)(a) Remand centres, that is to say places for the detention of persons not less than fourteen but under twenty-one years of age who are remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence.
1958 N.Y. Times 13 Aug. 26 Five existing ‘600’ day schools, three special ‘700’ schools, two remand centers and organized programs in nine custodial institutions.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 180 His impudence in courtrooms and remand centres.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Sept. 1/1 The Calgary remand centre—the first in Alberta—is open for business. The centre will house men held in custody between court appearances pending their trials.
2008 Caribbean Today May 6 He..had been on remand at the Horizon Remand Centre for several weeks after they were arrested.
remand home n. an institution to which young persons between the ages of 8 and 14 years are remanded or are committed for detention.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up > for juveniles
remand home1901
remand centre1937
detention centre1948
juvie1967
1901 Times 5 Nov. 13/3 Adapting Nos. 70, 72, and 74, Pentonville-road, and three houses in Camberwell-green, for remand homes.
1934 ‘J. Spenser’ Limey breaks In ii. 21 The policeman who took me to the remand home led me into a restaurant and gave me a good feed before he handed me over.
1972 G. Sereny Case of Mary Bell i. iii. 46 With her father's agreement, she was taken to stay at Fernwood Remand Home, a Newcastle County Council Children's Home for girls.
2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 411 I think of getting a cop, but the child will just be picked up and sent to the remand home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
remandv.
/rᵻˈmɑːnd/, /rᵻˈmand/, U.S. /rəˈmænd/, /riˈmænd/ I. General uses.† 2. † 4. transitive. To demand back from another. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To send (a thing) back again to a place; to reconsign. Also: to remit, consign.
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society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > cause to be conveyed or send > back again
remand1439
return1459
remita1466
resend1534
backward1789
reship1854
1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §53. m. 3 That the saide rolles..be remaundid and send ayeine unto the said places of the whiche thei were remeved.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 221 (MED) They remanded to hym theire wylle with grete yeftes of ryches.
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 276 Let vs once more remaund, adiudge, and sinke it to the very depths of Hell.
1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) ii. ii. 43 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) A wonderfull power is required to curb it, regulate it, or remand it back to the Earth, and keep it there.
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. Pref. sig. A5v Both dissuaded me from suffering it to be represented on the Stage; and accordingly it was remanded back to my Shelf.
a1761 S. Davies Coll. Poems (1968) i. 23 Then with a Sov'reign Nod Thou can'st remand The vast Productions of thy Hand, To dreary Nothing whence they came.
1851 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 7) 259 Should my Shadow cross thy thoughts.., remand it thou For calmer hours to Memory's darkest hold.
1888 Mind Oct. 536 The ethical writer is not likely to remand to Psychology proper the analysis of Conscience.
1927 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 129 59/1 We are testing out the sufficiency of a scheme of state control with respect to the most precious of our potential national assets—the conservation of children. And we have remanded it to the states in the high names of freedom and self-government.
1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred 4 The book helped remand Indian issues to the past.
a. transitive. To bring or fetch back. Also: to countermand. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > transference > bringing > bring [verb (transitive)] > back
again-bringOE
return?c1400
remand?1473
retract1650
to bring back1662
reimport1684
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 252 After many counceyllis he sente Anthenor and Polydamas in to grece for to remande his suster.
1624 T. James Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxvi. 307 A Fancy of mine, which I pray you to impart to the good Bishop; if he give any liking to it, let it go forward, if otherwise, let it be remanded.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1059/2 Quantities..are already Shipped in parts beyond the Seas for England, and cannot be Remanded without great loss to the Owners thereof.
1772 S. Scott Test Filial Duty II. 171 The baggage was remanded, the captain satisfied for the loss of his passenger [etc.].
b. transitive. To call or summon back, to recall. Obsolete.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > back
again-callc1390
revokec1425
rescrya1450
countermand1464
renvoy1477
reappeal1480
repeala1500
remand1525
recall1567
reclaim1590
return1590
speed1606
to call back1611
hark back1813
withcall1901
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccvi Whan he sawe that he coulde nat atcheue his busynesse, he sygnyfied his estate to the duke of Orlyance, wherevpon he was remaunded, and so he retourned to Parys.
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 156 With weeping heart he her remaunds to be with him at-one.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 569 He remanded his own [men] from the pursuit.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 482 Captain Wren..can only hear of 2 French men of war there, the rest being remanded home to Brest.
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 111 Jealous grown, [he] Remands all Guardians to defend his Throne.
1737 H. Baker tr. Virgil in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 428 From their Circle flew Th' unbody'd Fantom... Behold, she cries, Again the cruel Fates remand me back.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 101 Groan not, my child, thy God remands thee home.
1837 J. Conder Choir & Oratory iii. 53 Ye healed ones, His royal train, draw near, And whom his voice remanded from the grave.
3. † b. transitive. To refer (a person or issue) back to a passage in a book, or to a period of time. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To send back (a person); to command or order to go back to a place.
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the world > movement > transference > sending > send [verb (transitive)] > back
remit1414
renvoy1477
reverse1542
remand1579
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > send (a person) > back
remand1579
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiv. 788 Monsr Lawtrech who was vppon his waye to go to the Court..was eftsoones readiorned and remaunded to returne to Millan.
1588 in Harl. Misc. (Malham) II. 75 Some came..near London, whom she remanded to their countries, because their harvest was at hand.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiii. 273 The Jews were..remanded to wander another way many years, for the punishment of their infidelity.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. 30 Captain Henchman was sent down to the Governour and Council, to know what they should do: They presently remanded him to Pocasset, and ordered him to stay there if there were need.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 306 Where their Report the Vital Envoys make, And with new Orders are remanded back.
1771 Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 214 As you have reason to be fond of Spain and it's inhabitants, you may not be sorry at being remanded.
1852 S. Moodie Roughing it in Bush II. x. 193 The companies from the back townships had been remanded, and I received with delight my own again.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed x. 125 She had been remanded in bed for a day or two to rest up.
1985 M. W. Bonanno Dwellers in Crucible v. 90 Like the ‘fact’ that Montgomery Scott has been remanded to medical rest leave after a three-day binge.
1997 J. Hatfield & G. Burt Unauthorized X-Cycl. 104 Fazehas had been remanded from his ‘beat assignment’ to a desk job a year earlier.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > refer reader to authority
remitc1400
sendc1449
refer?1531
remand1655
relate1657
1655 H. Hammond Acct. Mr. Cawdry's Triplex Diatribe ii. 23 I shall not need provide new answers to it, but remand it to the former Section, where it was considered to the utmost it could pretend.
1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue 50 [On this] I have discoursed already in the foregoing discourse, and must therefore remand you thither.
1729 Vindic. Bishop of London's Pastoral Lett. 44 Explaining the first Rule (for thither you are pleased to remand us at this distance from it).
1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) p. vi We are remanded back to a stated period when the aforesaid ‘ornaments’ were in use in this Church of England.
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society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > demand > restitution
reclaim1530
redemand1544
repeat1582
remand1596
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlviii. 226 Each Birde shall then remaunde her Plumes.
1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xxxv. x. 213 If some Jesuits should come, and remand the Church from Luther againe.
1677 T. Baker Let. 15 June in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 29 If after the perusal it may be thought fit to have it printed, I shall remand it from him, and give it another dress.
1734 Honey-suckle 268 He that gave us Life, and He alone, With Justice can remand it, as his own.
II. Law.
5. transitive. To refer or remit (a prisoner, indictment, record, etc.) to a court or judge, esp. again; to refer (a case) back to a lower court.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > remove to another court or judge
remit?a1425
repledgec1430
remove1450
remand1514
1514–15 Act 6 Henry VIII c. 6 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 128 The Justices of the Kinges Benche..have full auctoritie..to remaunde and send downe, aswell the bodies of all felons and murderers..as their Inditements.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 27 §88 Which triall so before him had, he shall remaunde with the hole recorde vnto the iustice, before whom ye said plee or voucher was pleaded.
1650 C. Elderfield Civil Right Tythes xxv. 198 The latter [law] mentions the remanding or dismissing suits of Dismes back from the secular Judge.
1676 J. Brydall Camera Regis ii. xv. 84 After a writ to the Bishop, and certificate made by the Bishop, the Record shall be remanded into London again.
1782 J. Impey New Instructor Clericalis 544 If the judgment is..affirmed, the record is remanded, and the court of King's Bench will issue execution.
1796 B. J. Sellon Pract. Courts King's Bench II. xx. 526 On the hearing, the lords either affirm or reverse the judgment on which the clerk of the Parliaments draws a remittitur, by which the transcript of the record is remanded into the King's Bench, with the affirmance or reversal to be entered of record.
1823 Times 27 Mar. 4/2 The Magistrate, having no power to remove the prisoner until his sentence had expired, remanded the case until then, giving order that a detainer should be lodged against him.
1866 Calcutta Rev. 42 318 The High Court very properly set aside this decision, and remanded the case.
1956 J. Barth Floating Opera xx. 194 They rendered their opinion, which reversed the order of the Court of Appeals affirming the order of the Circuit Court dismissing our second amended complaint against the additional defendant, and remanded the record to the Circuit Court with a procedendo.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 1/6 In reversing and remanding the case to the Southern District, the Second Circuit panel assigned it to Judge Constance Baker Motley.
1995 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Feb. a15/5 Last August the U.S. Supreme Court summarily vacated the Ehrlich opinion and remanded the matter back to the California Court of Appeal for reconsideration.
6. transitive. To commit (a prisoner) to a place of custody.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody
commit1425
commise1480
commit1569
remand1593
refera1675
mittimus1764
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. viii. 106 But for that he would not answer them fully, he was pronounced contumax & pro confesso, & was remaunded backe to prison as afore.
1651 S. Clarke Gen. Martyrologie 43 The Governour understanding that he was a Roman, remanded him to prison till he understood the Emperours pleasure.
1715 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion I. 88 The Pris'ners all maintain'd their stubborn Will, And were, for persevering in the same, Remanded to the Prison whence they came.
1738 Magna Britannia Antiqua & Nova V. 303/2 The Bishop proceeded to condemn him, and remanded him to Norwich Prison, and from thence to Aye Gaol.
1785 J. Hatsell Precedents (ed. 2) I. iii. 149 The House sent for Sir Henry Stanhope by their Serjeant with the Mace, but on examination remanded him to the prison of the Marshalsea.
1801 M. Edgeworth Prussian Vase in Moral Tales III. 36 If..the prisoner is guilty, I am to remand him to the castle of Spandau.
1864 J. T. Headley Chaplains & Clergy of Revol. xxxvii. 353 The mayor was in a quandary, for he knew that if he remanded him to prison there would be another kind of a riot.
1893 L. W. Moore His Own Story ii. 41 He remanded the prisoner to jail until the next term of court, when the facts, he said, would be known.
1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made iv. 96 The shooting brought out the Summit authorities, who, indignant at the desecrating of the Sabbath calm, arrested the director and the cast and remanded them to the calaboose for the night.
1950 Yale Law Jrnl. 59 v The court rejected this argument and remanded him to jail.
2003 P. C. Marcello Dalai Lama v. 48 The Indian military arrested them and remanded them to an internment camp near Bombay, India.
7. transitive. To send (a prisoner) back into custody, now spec. to allow further evidence on the charge to be obtained. Frequently in passive in to be remanded in custody.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > recommit to custody
remit1414
reprievea1513
remand1641
recommit?c1663
1641 Diurnall Occurr. 3 Nov. 1640–3 Nov. 1641 210 He remanded them, where they remained prisoners very long.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1629 13/2 The Judges remanded him; and after 12 years Imprisonment.., he at last dyed in want.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxx. 266 (heading) Morgan is sent back into custody, whither also I am remanded after a curious trial.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 336 If the cause of commitment had been expressed for treason or felony, the court would then have done right in remanding them.
1794 Cases Manumission of Negroes (Supreme Court, New Jersey) 29 The Court..do order..that the said Abraham and Dolley be remanded into the Custody of the said Administrators.
1819 Sporting Mag. New Ser. 4 30 Two baronets' sons pleading to be white-washed, but remanded for fraud towards their creditors.
1858 A. W. Fonblanque How we are Governed 185 The magistrate has the power of remanding him, or sending him back to prison for eight days.
1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail i. 23 ‘Rem for a bust’.. means..remanded for a burglary.
1928 Times 9 Oct. 11/4 Frank Stephen Dryden, a pavior, employed by the Wallsend Corporation, was remanded in custody for a week.
1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxi. 328 The next morning, at the magistrates' court, Colum and the others were remanded to appear at the Old Bailey on a charge of robbery with violence.
1996 D. Benton Food for Thought viii. 153 Having a long history of convictions for burglaries, he had expected to be remanded in custody until his trial for sixty other similar offences.
Derivatives
reˈmanded adj.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adjective] > remanded
remanded1837
society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > committing to custody > committed to custody
committed1646
remanded1837
1837 Times 6 Apr. 5/2 The Commissioners of Police also objected to maintaining remanded prisoners.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 2/1 He wore the dark-blue dress of remanded prisoners.
1939 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 21 191 Such tribal police, except in Buganda, are untrained and undisciplined and are employed only in serving summonses, arresting accused persons and in the surveillance or convicted or remanded prisoners.
2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 16/2 I began to notice the peculiar solicitude with which the officers took custody of a remanded defendant.
reˈmandment n. the action or fact of being remanded (in various senses).
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1784 T. Jefferson Draught Const. Virginia 13 No order given on due examination for his remandment or discharge.
1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. July 71/2 I must, perforce, agree with the proposal of remandment.
1934 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 1 762 The power granted to the reviewing court..to order a partial remandment solely for the purpose of assessing damages where it appears that such damages were not assessed in the trial court.
2001 V. Brackett Contingent Self i. 39 She barely escaped remandment to the Tower and suffered the anger of her eldest son.
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