redemand

[ ree-di-mand, -mahnd ]

verb (used with object)

1. to demand again.
2. to demand back; demand the return of.

Other Words From

• rede·manda·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of redemand¹

First recorded in 1565–75; re- + demand

Example Sentences

The author has not well distinguished between the sum of money, or rather the specie, which one may redemand in 428 the term of six months, by means of a receipt, and the money for which one is credited in bank.

From Project Gutenberg

Redemand, rē-dē-mand′, v.t. to demand back or again.—n. the repetition of a demand: a demand for the return of a thing.

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Oh, no: but when they redemand the money, On my account he’ll rather go to jail!

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For to concern yourself with both, appears As if you’d redemand the boy you gave.

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They then proceeded to Tenedos, from whence Odysseus and Menelaus were dispatched as envoys to Troy, to redemand Helen and the stolen property.

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