redition

English

Etymology

From Latin reditio, from redire. See redient.

Noun

redition

1. (obsolete) The act of returning; a return.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     The selfe same way shee came doth make retreate,
     And so effects the sounde reechoed
     Onely in part, because shee weaker is
     In that redition, then when first shee fled

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

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

Anagrams

• retinoid