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n. [ L. ademptio, fr. adimere, ademptum, to take away; ad + emere to buy, orig. to take. ] (Law) The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. To damn; to condemn. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

{ } n. [ See Deemster. ] 1. A deemster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Scots Law) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Misdeem. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Redeemable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rédemption, L. redemptio. See redeem, and cf. ransom. ] The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. Specifically: (a) (Law) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, under Equity. (b) (Com.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder. (c) (Theol.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whom we have redemption through his blood. Eph. i. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or may be, redeemed. [ R. ] Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. rédemptoriste, fr. L. redemptor redeemer, from redinere. See Redeem. ] (R.C.Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. “Hector's redemptory price.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]