Word Meanings - REVINDICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. Mitford.

Related words: (words related to REVINDICATE)

• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• DEMAND
  To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• VINDICATE
  1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• RECLAIM
  To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. A tract of land snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.
• RECLAIMANT
  One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• DEMANDER
  One who demands.
• AGAINBUY
  To redeem. Wyclif.
• DEMANDANT
  One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
• RECLAIMLESS
  That can not be reclaimed.
• DEMANDABLE
  That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.
• IRRECLAIMABLE
  Incapable of being reclaimed. Addison. -- Ir`re*claim"a*bly, ad
• REVINDICATE
  To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back. Mitford.