Category:Redress

Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [pref. re- + dress.]

Defn: to dress again.

Redress Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [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.

Redress 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.