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redie

redie

See also: rēdie

English

Verb

redie (third-person singular simple present redies, present participle redying, simple past and past participle redied)

  1. (nonstandard) To die again.
    • 1972, John Barth, Chimera Pa (ISBN 0618131701), page 105:
      [] until Athene had scalped, rebodied, and revived her — whereupon her first request was to redie at once if she was Gorgon still. An odd thing was that, once brought back, she could recall all her dead head's doings []
    • 2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World (ISBN 0595612199), page 146:
      [] with such company as Gilgamesh, who though mortal was part human and part divine; the Japanese deity Ninigi, who though originally divine became mortal; Sumerian Dumuzi, who though divine was required repeatedly to redie; []