remeid meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

remeid

noun

UK /ɹɪˈmiːd/ · US /ɹəˈmid/

Etymology From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.

› Remedy.

Dialectal Legal redress of a wrong.

[…] the Commissioners of Burghs […] meet yearly at Inverkeithing “to treat of the welfare of merchandize, the good rule and statutes for the common profit of burghs, and to provide for remeid upon the skaith and injuries sustained within the burghs.”1878, William Charles Smith, "Borough" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 64

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Dialectal Any correction of a wrong or undesirable thing.

Scotland, Dialectal, Obsolete The proportion by which a coin may acceptably deviate from its ideal weight or proportion of precious metal.

verb

Etymology From Middle English remede, from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede. Doublet of remedy.

Scotland, Obsolete To remedy, in its various senses.