Definition of Redriss
Re*dress" (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref.
re- + dress.] To dress again.
Re*dress" (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F.
redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser
to raise, arrange. See Dress.]
1. To put in order again; to set right; to
emend; to revise. [R.]
The common profit could she
redress. Chaucer.
In yonder spring of roses intermixed
With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
Milton.
Your wish that I should redress a certain paper
which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an
injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
I doubt not but with honor to redress.
Shak.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to
relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
"'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress."
Dryden.
Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?
Byron.
Re*dress", n. 1.
The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction;
amendment. [R.]
Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the
more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
Hooker.
2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or
opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief;
remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak.
A few may complain without reason; but there is
occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
Davenant.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a
redresser.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
Dryden.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the
king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of
the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own
naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and
it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- To dress again.
- To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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