replevy

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/ɹɪˈplɛvi/

verb

To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.

OriginOld French replevir →
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Meanings

verbreplevy (third-person singular simple present replevies, present participle replevying, simple past and past participle replevied)

present singular third person replevies · participle present replevying · participle past replevied · past replevied

  1. To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
  2. UKobsoletelawTo bail.

    I humbly crave your Majestie / It to replevie , and my Sonne reprive

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
noun
  1. replevin

Origin

  1. Old Frenchreplevir“recover”
  2. Englishreplevy

Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).

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Translations

Spanish reivindicar
  • reivindicarto return goods to their rightful owner by replevin

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with replevy

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Chicago

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