2. To interpret; to explain. [Obs.] My sweven [dream] rede aright. Chaucer.
REDE
Rede, n. Etym: [See Read, n.]
1. Advice; counsel; suggestion. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns. There was none other remedy ne reed. Chaucer.
2. A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw. [Obs.] "This rede is rife." Spenser.
REDEEM
Re*deem" (r*dm"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Redeemed. (-dp. pr. & vb. n.
Redeeming.] Etym: [F. r\'82dimer, L. redimere; pref. red-, re- re- +
emere, emptum, to buy, originally, to take, cf. OIr. em (in comp.),
Lith. imti. Cf. Assume, Consume, Exempt, Premium, Prompt, Ransom.]
1. To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. Lev. xxv. 29.
2. Hence, specifically: (a) (Law) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage. (b) (Com.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
3. To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Ps. xxv. 22. The Almighty from the grave Hath me redeemed. Sandys.
4. (Theol.)
Defn: Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13.