English Dictionary: redemption | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Radium \Ra`di*um\, n. [NL., fr. L. radius ray.] (Chem.) An intensely radioactive metallic element found (combined) in minute quantities in pitchblende, and various other uranium minerals. Symbol, Ra; atomic weight, 226.4. Radium was discovered by M. and Mme. Curie, of Paris, who in 1902 separated compounds of it by a tedious process from pitchblende. Its compounds color flames carmine and give a characteristic spectrum. It resembles barium chemically. Radium preparations are remarkable for maintaining themselves at a higher temperature than their surroundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore an atomic property, and is explained as result from a disintegration of the atom. This breaking up occurs in at least seven stages; the successive main products have been studied and are called {radium emanation} or exradio, {radium A}, {radium B}, {radium C}, etc. (The emanation is a heavy gas, the later products are solids.) These products are regarded as unstable elements, each with an atomic weight a little lower than its predecessor. It is possible that lead is the stable end product. At the same time the light gas helium is formed; it probably consists of the expelled alpha particles. The heat effect mentioned above is ascribed to the impacts of these particles. Radium, in turn, is believed to be formed indirectly by an immeasurably slow disintegration of uranium. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Reattempt \Re`at*tempt"\, v. t. To attempt again. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Red chalk}. See under {Chalk}. {Red copper} (Min.), red oxide of copper; cuprite. {Red coral} (Zo[94]l.), the precious coral ({Corallium rubrum}). See Illusts. of {Coral} and {Gorgonlacea}. {Red cross}. The cross of St. George, the national emblem of the English. (b) The Geneva cross. See {Geneva convention}, and {Geneva cross}, under {Geneva}. {Red currant}. (Bot.) See {Currant}. {Red deer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The common stag ({Cervus elaphus}), native of the forests of the temperate parts of Europe and Asia. It is very similar to the American elk, or wapiti. (b) The Virginia deer. See {Deer}. {Red duck} (Zo[94]l.), a European reddish brown duck ({Fuligula nyroca}); -- called also {ferruginous duck}. {Red ebony}. (Bot.) See {Grenadillo}. {Red empress} (Zo[94]l.), a butterfly. See {Tortoise shell}. {Red fir} (Bot.), a coniferous tree ({Pseudotsuga Douglasii}) found from British Columbia to Texas, and highly valued for its durable timber. The name is sometimes given to other coniferous trees, as the Norway spruce and the American {Abies magnifica} and {A. nobilis}. {Red fire}. (Pyrotech.) See {Blue fire}, under {Fire}. {Red flag}. See under {Flag}. {Red fox} (Zo[94]l.), the common American fox ({Vulpes fulvus}), which is usually reddish in color. {Red grouse} (Zo[94]l.), the Scotch grouse, or ptarmigan. See under {Ptarmigan}. {Red gum}, [or] {Red gum-tree} (Bot.), a name given to eight Australian species of {Eucalyptus} ({Eucalyptus amygdalina}, {resinifera}, etc.) which yield a reddish gum resin. See {Eucalyptus}. {Red hand} (Her.), a left hand appaum[82], fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon, being the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; -- called also {Badge of Ulster}. {Red herring}, the common herring dried and smoked. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redeemability \Re*deem`a*bil"i*ty\ (-?*b?l"?*t?), n. Redeemableness. | |
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Redeemable \Re*deem"a*ble\ (-?*b;l), a. 1. Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. 2. Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc., redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redeemableness \Re*deem"a*ble*ness\ (r?*d?m"?*b'l*n?s), n. The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability. | |
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Redemptible \Re*demp"ti*ble\ (r?*d?mp"t?*b'l), a. Redeemable. | |
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Re-demption \Re-demp"tion\ (-sh?n), n. [F. r[82]demption, 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 re[89]ntering 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. In whom we have redemption through his blood. --Eph. i. 7. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redemptionary \Re*demp"tion*a*ry\ (-?*r?), n. One who is, or may be, redeemed. [R.] --Hakluyt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redemptioner \Re*demp"tion*er\ (-?r), n. 1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redemptionist \Re*demp"tion*ist\, 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}. | |
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Redemptive \Re*demp"tive\ (-t?v), a. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Redemptorist \Re*demp"tor*ist\ (-t?r*?st), n. [F. r[82]demptoriste, 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. | |
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Redemptory \Re*demp"to*ry\ (-t?*r?), a. Paid for ransom; serving to redeem. [bd]Hector's redemptory price.[b8] --Chapman. | |
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Redempture \Re*demp"ture\ (-t?r; 135), n. Redemption. [Obs.] | |
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Retainable \Re*tain"a*ble\, a. Capable of being retained. | |
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d8Retinophora \[d8]Ret`i*noph"o*ra\, n.; pl. {Retiniphor[91]}. [NL., fr. NL. & E. retina + Gr. [?][?][?][?] to bear.] (Zo[94]l.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrill[91]. See Illust. under {Ommatidium}. | |
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Retinophoral \Ret`i*noph"o*ral\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to retinophor[91]. | |
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Rotten \Rot"ten\, a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See {Rot}.] Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. --Shak. (b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. [bd]The deepness of the rotten way.[b8] --Knolles. {Rotten borough}. See under {Borough}. {Rotten stone} (Min.), a soft stone, called also {Tripoli} (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses. Syn: Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous. -- {Rot"ten*ly}, adv. -- {Rot"ten*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town, burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. ba[a3]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. [root]95. See {Bury}, v. t., and cf. {Burrow}, {Burg}, {Bury}, n., {Burgess}, {Iceberg}, {Borrow}, {Harbor}, {Hauberk}.] 1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. Erskine. 2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. {Close borough}, [or] {Pocket borough}, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. {Rotten borough}, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rodney Village, DE (CDP, FIPS 61720) Location: 39.12637 N, 75.53691 W Population (1990): 1745 (641 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
README file n. Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a Unix source distribution, containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc. (The file may be named README, or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant.) In the Mac and PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. When asked, hackers invariably relate the README convention to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me". | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
README file top-level directory of a {Unix} {source} distribution, containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc. The file may be named README, or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the {Macintosh} and {IBM PC} worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labelled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me". [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RTMP {Routing Table Maintenance Protocol} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Redemption the purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is _apolutrosis_, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom or price paid, i.e., redemption by a lutron (see Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45). There are instances in the LXX. Version of the Old Testament of the use of _lutron_ in man's relation to man (Lev. 19:20; 25:51; Ex. 21:30; Num. 35:31, 32; Isa. 45:13; Prov. 6:35), and in the same sense of man's relation to God (Num. 3:49; 18:15). There are many passages in the New Testament which represent Christ's sufferings under the idea of a ransom or price, and the result thereby secured is a purchase or redemption (comp. Acts 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5; Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:5, 6; Titus 2:14; Heb. 9:12; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19; Rev. 5:9). The idea running through all these texts, however various their reference, is that of payment made for our redemption. The debt against us is not viewed as simply cancelled, but is fully paid. Christ's blood or life, which he surrendered for them, is the "ransom" by which the deliverance of his people from the servitude of sin and from its penal consequences is secured. It is the plain doctrine of Scripture that "Christ saves us neither by the mere exercise of power, nor by his doctrine, nor by his example, nor by the moral influence which he exerted, nor by any subjective influence on his people, whether natural or mystical, but as a satisfaction to divine justice, as an expiation for sin, and as a ransom from the curse and authority of the law, thus reconciling us to God by making it consistent with his perfection to exercise mercy toward sinners" (Hodge's Systematic Theology). |