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redie en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiːˈdaɪ/

Etymology

From re- + die.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, nonstandard) To die again.
   • […] 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; […] 2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World, →ISBN, page 146:
   • […] 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 […] 1972, John Barth, Chimera Pa, →ISBN, page 105:

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