redie

See also: rēdie and rédie

English[edit]

re- +‎ die

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

(nonstandard, intransitive) To die again.
- 1972, John Barth, Chimera Pa, →ISBN, 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, 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; […]

redie f (plural redii)

Declension of redie