Category:Redound

Re*dound" (r*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] Etym: [f. redonder, l. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + Undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See undulate, and Cf. Redundant.]

1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to Flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to Result. The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom It sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to god, the author Of it. Rogers. Both. . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small Use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison.

2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to Overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, a pound of gall doth over it Redound. Spenser.

Redound Re*dound", n.

1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; Requital. We give you welcome; not without redound of use and glory to Yourselves ye come. Tennyson.

2. Rebound; reverberation. [r.] Codrington.