 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
redeemed
adjective: saved from the bondage of sin [syn: {ransomed}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Redeem \Re*deem"\ (r?*d?m"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Redeemed}.
(-d?md"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Redeeming}.] [F. r['e]dimer, 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.) 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.
5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to
redeem one's promises.
I will redeem all this on Percy's head. --Shak.
6. To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an
equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as,
to redeem an error.
Which of ye will be mortal, to redeem
Man's mortal crime? --Milton.
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows.
--Shak.
{To redeem the time}, to make the best use of it.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "redeemed":
absolved, acquitted, angelic, archangelic, assimilated, beatified,
blotted, born again, canceled, canonized, celestial, changed,
cherubic, circumcised, condoned, converted, delivered, disregarded,
emancipated, exculpated, excused, exonerated, extricated, forgiven,
forgotten, free, freed, glorified, heavenly, in glory, indulged,
justified, liberated, martyred, naturalized, on parole, overlooked,
pardoned, reborn, reformed, regenerate, regenerated, released,
remitted, renewed, reprieved, rescued, sainted, saintly,
sanctified, saved, seraphic, shriven, spared, spiritually purified,
transformed, unavenged, unbound, uncondemned, unresented,
unrevenged, unshackled, untied, wiped away
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