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kind from fin and death, by the obedience and facrifice of 

 Chriil, who on this account ia called the ReJtemer of the 

 world. See Covenant. 



Redempiion.s, Retkmptionirr, in our old Latv IVriUrs, 

 denote grievous muldts impofed by way of commutation for 

 the head or life of the delinquent. 



Redemption of the National Debt. Sec Fund. 



REDEN, or Rkdzyn, in Geography-, a town of Pruflia, 

 in the territory of Culm ; 20 miles N.E. of Culm. 



REDENS, Redans, or Reliant, in Fortification, a kind 

 of \york indented in form of the teeth of a faw, with faliant 

 and re-entering angles ; to the end that one part may flank 

 or defend another. 



It is alfo called yaw-TOO//', and indented work. The faces 

 in this flank one another. 



Redens are frequently ufed in the fortifying of walls, 

 where it is not neceffary to be at the expence of building 

 bailions ; as wlien they ftand on the fide of a river, a marlh, 

 the fea, &c. But the fault of fuch fortification is, that the 

 befiegers from one battery may ruin both the fides of the 

 tenaille or front of a place, and make an affault without fear 

 of being enfiladed, fincethe defences are mined. 



The parapet of the corridor alfo is frequently redented, or 

 carried on by way of redens. 



REDES, in Geography, a river of South America, 

 which runs into the gulf of Darien, N. lat. 7^ 37'. W. 

 long. 76^ 40'. 



REDHIBITION, Redhibitio, in the Civil Latu, an 

 aftion allowed a buyer, by which to annul the fale of fome 

 moveable, and oblige the buyer to take it back again, upon 

 the buyer's finding it damaged, or that there was fome per- 

 fonal cheat, &c. 



The redliibition, or redhibitory a£lion, has a place in fe- 

 veral cafes, in the body of the civil law. If a horfe was fold 

 that had the glanders, were broken-winded, or foundered, 

 it was a redhibitory cafe ; and the feller might be obliged to 

 take him again within nine days. 



RED I, Francis, in Biography, an Italian phyfician, 

 was defcended from a noble family, and born at Arezzo, in 

 Tufcany, in the year 1626. He commenced his ftudies at 

 Florence, and then removed to Pifa, for the profecution of 

 his philofophical and medical purfuits, where he received the 

 degree of dcftbr in both thefe fciences. He had acquired 

 great reputation both in fcience and literature, and was in- 

 duced to fettle at Florence, where he at length gained the 

 favour of the court, and was appointed firlt phyfician to 

 Ferdinand II. duke of Tufcany, and fubfequeiitly to 

 Cofmo III. Thefe appointments and his conftant profef- 

 fional employment did not, however, prevent him from cul- 

 tivating his favourite ftudy of the belles lettres. He de- 

 voted much of his time to the language of his country, and 

 contributed not a little to the perfeftion of the dictionary of 

 the academy of La Crufca, of which, and of feveral other 

 learned bodies, he was a member. Totally free from pre- 

 furaption, and attached to every cultivator of learning and 

 fcience, he was always ready to give his afliftance to them in 

 every way he could, and was univerfally elteemed and be- 

 loved. He difplayed both in his pracflice, and in the pro- 

 fecution of his mquiries in natural hiltory, a Angular acute- 

 nefs of obfervation, and a complete incrLdulity as to the 

 marvellous, which was fo prevalent in his time ; and he cau- 

 tioned liis friends and pupils againft the popular errors in 

 this refptfl. Although he was afflifted with epileptic fits 

 in his latter years, yet he appears neither to have abandoned 

 his fludies, nor his profeflional bufinefs, until his death, 

 which took jjlace in 1697, in his 7ifl year. 



Redi was the author of feveral Italian poems, which are 



held in muchi edimation. His other works were all written 

 in Italian, and his ftyle was deemed fo pure and elegant, that 

 the authors of the diftionary of La Crufca have often cited 

 it as a (landard. Moft of his writings 011 natural hiftory 

 have been tranflated into Latin ; efpecially his " Experi- 

 menta circa Generationem Inicdtoruin, cum Figuris jEncis;" 

 his " Obfervationes de Viperis ;" his " Experimenta circa 

 diverfas Res naturales, fpcciatim illas qux ex Indiis ad- 

 fcruntur ;" and his " Obfervationes de Animalibus viventi- 

 bus, qus intra Animalia viventia reperiuntur." He alfo 

 publifhed a letter on the Ufe of Speclacles, and an Eday on 

 Styptics. Eloy Did. Hifl. de la Med. 



Redi, in the notes to his " Bacco in Torcano," a dithy- 

 rambic poem, publiflied in 1685, has given many curious 

 etymologies and explanations of the mufical terms ufed by 

 the Italians in early times. 



REDIGOODEM, in Geography, a town of Hindooaan, 

 in the circar of Ellore ; 25 miles W. of EUore. 



REDIMICULUM, among the Romans, a girdle, 

 which going about the neck, divided on the bread, and 

 paffing down each fide, wenfround, and kept the robe tight 

 to the body. 



REDINKA, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in the 

 province of Beira ; 14 miles S. of Coimbra. 



REDINTEGRATED Medals. See Medal. 



REDINTEGRATION, Redintegiiatio, in the Civil 

 Latu, the aft of reitoring a perfon to the enjoyment of a 

 thing, of which he had been illegally difpoflefled. 



In France, where a perfon is defpoded of his property, 

 he claims it again by redintegrand, or aftion of reftitution. 

 But the redintegrand muil be demanded within a year and 

 a day, otherwife it is precluded. 



Redixtegration, in Chemiflry, the refforing of any 

 mixed body, or matter, whole form lias been deflroyed by 

 calcination, cori'ofion, fublimation, or the like, to its former 

 nature and conftitution. 



The redintegration of mercury is properly called revivifi- 

 cation. Mr. Boyle has .in exprefs treatife on the redintegra- 

 tion of faltpetre ; where he fhews, that after reducing it by 

 fluxion into fixed nitre, which is next of kin to fait of tar- 

 tar in all its properties, he could prefently redintegrate it, 

 by pouring a fufhcient quantity of fpirit of nitre on it ; i. t. 

 he could re-produce true cryftals of the ufual form and virtue 

 of faltpetre. 



It is a ftrong objeftion againft the chemical principles, 

 that we cannot redintegrate the body they were procured 

 from, by re-mixing them. 



This feems to argue, that the body did not properly con- 

 fift of fuch elements, or that they were not originally con- 

 tained in it, but were rather produced by the fire. 



REDIPATAM, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Marawar ; 18 m.iles N. of Ramadnaporum. 



REDIRE ad Paeem,'m Law, is applied to a perfon, whofc 

 outlawry is reverted, and who is reftored to the king's peace. 



ilEDISSEISIN, a diffeifin made by him who once be- 

 fore was found and adjudged to have difieifed the fame man 

 of his lands or tenements ; for which there lies a fpecial writ, 

 called a writ of redijfeijin. See Assise of Novel Diffeifin, 

 Disseisin, and Yoat-Dijfeiftn. 



REDMANS, or Radmans, in Doomfday and other 

 ancient books, are probably the fame with rod, or rad- 

 knights ; vi%. men who, by the tenure or cuftom of their 

 lands, were to ride with, or for, the lord of the manor, 

 about his bufinefs. 



REDNITZ, in Geography, a river of Germany, formed 



by the union of the Upper and Unter Reilat, about 5 miles 



S. of Roth", in Franconia. After receiving in its courfe 



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