Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of remanding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A remand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
remand .
Etymologies
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remand + -ment
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Examples
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Arrests of colored freemen in the same period numbered 78, of which 27 were followed by discharge, 36 by fine or whipping, 5 by sentence to the workhouse, and 10 by remandment.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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1785 Mr. Nicholas, though so youthful and inexperienced, was zealous and prominent in the advocacy of the bill securing religious freedom, and in the suppression of parish vestries, and for the remandment of the property of the Episcopal Church in glebes, to support of the poor in the several counties.
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