redditionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɹəˈdɪʃən/

名詞

reddition (countable and uncountable, plural redditions)

1. restoration; restitution: surrender
   • 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:

     perfect obedience […] partly by voluntary reddition and desire of protection, and partly by conqueſt

2. explanation; representation
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     reddition, or application of the comparison

     The spelling has been modernized.

参照

“reddition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.