▪ I. † reˈdouble, n.1 Obs.—1
[Cf. redouble v.1 and obs. F. redouble (Godef.).]
Repetition, anadiplosis.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 210 Ye haue another sort of repetition when with the worde by which you finish your verse, ye beginne the next verse... The Greeks call this figure Anadiplosis, I call him the Redouble as the originall beares. |
▪ II. redouble, n.2 Bridge.
[f. redouble v.2]
A call that redoubles a bid.
| 1906 ‘Cut-Cavendish’ Compl. Bridge Player 98 The redouble is the rara avis of the Bridge world. 1910 J. B. Elwell Auction Bridge 103 The laws of Auction, as embodied for club play, limit the doubling feature to one double and one re-double. 1925 [see business 21 d]. 1964 Official Encycl. Bridge 450/1 Ill-judged doubles of game or slam contracts may lead to redoubles. 1975 Times 20 Dec. 10/7 The Double of a No trump is primarily for a penalty: what does the opener mean to convey by a Redouble? |
▪ III. redouble, v.1
(rɪˈdʌb(ə)l)
Also 6–7 redub(b)le.
[a. F. redoubler (f. re- re- + doubler to double) = Sp. redoblar, Pg. redobrar, It. raddoppiare.]
1. trans. To double (a thing); to make twice as great or as much.
| c 1477 Caxton Jason 18 b, I haue yet good wil that to⁓morne I shal redouble that. c 1489 ― Blanchardyn xlii. 159 These tydynges dyde redouble her ioye ouer mesure. 1555 Eden Decades 249 By this meanes are the customes redoubeled. 1594 Southwell M. Magd. Fun. Tears (1823) 73 Thy losse hath redoubled the torment of my owne [grief]. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 219 The feare which she hath lest her little one should take harme redoubleth her courage. 1698 S. Clarke Script. Just. iv. 18 When God justified Job,..he return'd and redoubled all his Temporal Blessings to him again. 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. vi. 192 This made our people redouble their efforts. 1797–1809 Coleridge Three Graves 345 There was a hurry in her looks, Her struggles she redoubled. 1868 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. x. 520 The King's alms and prayers and fastings are redoubled. |
b. intr. To be doubled; to become twice as great or as much. Also, to become doubly strong in some respect.
| 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxiv. 90 Redoublen her sorowes and her trystesses enforce more vpon her. 1530 Palsgr. 682/1 Whan I thynke upon his dethe my sorowes redouble. a 1627 Hayward Four Y. Eliz. (Camden) 62 The Englishe..redublinge in courage upon the importance of their danger,..drave the French againe home to the towne. 1666 Harvey Morb. Angl. xxxi. (1672) 94 The heat of the body reflecting at the fingers ends, redoubles, and is more intense than in any other part. 1715 Pope Iliad i. 296 Nor yet the rage his boiling breast forsook, Which thus redoubling on Atrides broke. 1831 Jekyll Corr. (1894) 281 The morning papers redouble in fury. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 46 The clamour redoubled when it was known that the convert..had accepted the Deanery of Saint Paul's. |
† c. To be (so many times) greater than. Obs.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxii. §5. 338 The Armie of this enemie is reported to redouble thirty times his. |
† 2. trans. a. To repay doubly. b. To cause to be repeated. Obs. rare.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. xii, Thus my kyndenesse hathe he well acquyted, or (as I mought saye) redoubled, delyvering me from the death. Ibid. iii. xxi, Often tymes the omittynge of correction redoubleth a trespace. |
3. To repeat; to do, say, etc., a second time.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 344 b, Of the greatnesse of Sinne..hath bene spoken so much already that it is needelesse now to redouble the same agayne. 1626 T. H. tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 71 There is not a visitant..that will not roame from house to house..and redouble iourney after iourney heerevpon. 1645 Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 180/1 (Gen. i. 27) He..said also in the same verse, ‘in the image of God created he him’, and redoubled it. 1845 Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. I. 91/1 It is sufficient..that the negative conception should be once expressed in a simple sentence; but we generally find it redoubled in old English. |
b. esp. To repeat (a blow, etc.).
| 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 90 Let thy blowes doubly redoubled, Fall like amazing thunder. 1598 R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. vi. viii. (1622) 134 He..being carried away with his horse, was not able to redouble his stroke. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres vi. 40 e, He was..wounded in the side by one who was come thither to kill him, and who did not redouble his thrust. |
† c. absol. To repeat a thrust or stroke in fencing.
| 1640 tr. Verdere's Romant of Rom. iii. 220 He ran him with his sword into the thigh, and instantly redoubling on his helmet, he overturned him. 1692 Sir W. Hope Fencing-Master 98 When you Redouble or give in another Thrust. |
† 4. trans. To repeat (a sound); to return, reproduce, re-echo. Obs.
| a 1542 Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 75 To me they do redubble still of stormy sighes the voyce. 1596 Spenser Prothalamion 111 So ended she; and all the rest around To her redoubled that her undersong. 1655 Milton Sonn., Massacre Piedmont, Their moans The Vales redoubl'd to the Hills, and they To Heav'n. 1679 Dryden Limberham iii. i, Hollow mountains my groans redouble. |
b. intr. To re-echo, resound.
| 1725 Pope Odyss. vi. 136 Loud shrieks the virgin train, And the loud shriek redoubles from the main. 1781 Cowper Truth 240 Peal upon peal redoubling all around. 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam vii. xi, A stunning clang of massive bolts redoubling Beneath the deep. |
5. trans. To duplicate by reflection.
| 1827 Montgomery Pelican Isl. i. 11 The sun Sole in the firmament, but in the deep Redoubled. 1869 Ruskin Q. of Air §18 As you may trace new forms and softer colours in a hillside, redoubled by a lake. |
† 6. To pass or sail round, to double. Obs.—1
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. i. §4. 155 The huge enorme tract of ground beyond Caledonia..was first redoubled with the Romane fleet by Iulius Agricola. |
▪ IV. redouble, v.2
(riːˈdʌb(ə)l)
[re- 5 a.]
a. trans. and intr. To double again.
| 1530 Palsgr. 682/1 It is a sporte to se an hare doubyll and redoubyll. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. x[i]. (Arb.) 100 The maker will double or redouble his rime or concords, and set his distances farre or nigh. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 283 Doubling and redoubling the praises of the king. 1771 Luckombe Hist. Print. 403 As the volume that is doubled or re-doubled is imposed in the whole Chase. |
b. spec. in Bridge, to double again (a bid which an opponent has already doubled). Also absol. or intr.
| 1894 ‘Boaz’ Pocket Guide to Bridge 6 The leader has then to ask the adversaries whether either of them wishes to redouble. 1898 [see double v. 1 g]. 1910 J. B. Elwell Auction Bridge 102 The partner..may be well satisfied with the double, and, perhaps, in a position to redouble... The general Auction laws do not limit the number of times that a declaration may be doubled and re-doubled. 1921 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 17/1 The player who doubles would not lose much if the rule was that his double could not be re⁓doubled. 1980 Times 12 Jan. 10/6 South doubles for a take-out and West redoubles. |
▪ V. † reˈdouble, v.3 Obs.
Also 6 -dub(b)le, -doble.
[a. obs. F. redoubler, -dobler (15th c.), app. an erroneous form of redouber to redub.]
trans. To put right, amend, redress.
| c 1555 Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 55 They would fain reduble and redress this error. 1571 Duke of Norfolk in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. IV. 574 Manye men have runne astraie who..have afterwardes, with good service, redobled ther former follies. 1596 Foxe's A. & M. 1001/2 No man shall by colour of dutie omitted by their curates, deteine their tithes, and so redouble [1570 redubbe] one wrong with another. |