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ransom 音標拼音: [r'ænsəm] n. 贖金,贖身,贖回,敲詐,勒索
vt. 贖,贖身,贖回,勒索贖金 贖金,贖身,贖回,敲詐,勒索贖,贖身,贖回,勒索贖金 ransom n 1: money demanded for the return of a captured person [ synonym: { ransom}, { ransom money}] 2: payment for the release of someone 3: the act of freeing from captivity or punishment v 1: exchange or buy back for money; under threat [ synonym: { ransom}, { redeem}] Ransom \ Ran" som\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Ransomed} (- s[ u^] md); p. pr. & vb. n. { Ransoming}.] [ Cf. F. ran[, c] onner. See { Ransom}, n.] 1. To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. -- Berners. [ 1913 Webster]
Ransom \ Ran" som\ ( r[ a^] n" s[ u^] m), n. [ OE. raunson, raunsoun, OF. ran[, c] on, raen[, c] on, raan[, c] on, F. ran[, c] on, fr. L. redemptio, fr. redimere to redeem. See { Redeem}, and cf. { Redemption}.] 1. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit. [ 1913 Webster] Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty. -- Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( O. Eng. Law) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] { Ransom bill} ( Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port. -- Kent. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " ransom": buy, deliver, deliverance, delivery, emancipate, extract, extricate, extrication, free, freeing, get back, liberate, liberation, lifesaving, payment, price, recapture, reclaim, reclaiming, reclamation, recoup, recoupment, recover, recovery, recuperate, recuperation, recycle, redeem, redemption, regain, regainment, release, renovate, reoccupation, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, repossession, rescue, restoration, restore, resume, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, revindicate, revindication, revival, revive, salvage, salvation, save, saving, set free, take back, trover, win backRansom the price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man " gave his life a ransom for many" ( Matt. 20: 28; comp. Acts 20: 28; Rom. 3: 23, 24; 1 Cor. 6: 19, 20; Gal. 3: 13; 4: 4, 5: Eph. 1: 7; Col. 1: 14; 1 Tim. 2: 6; Titus 2: 14; 1 Pet. 1: 18, 19. In all these passages the same idea is expressed). This word is derived from the Fr. rancon; Lat. redemptio. The debt is represented not as cancelled but as fully paid. The slave or captive is not liberated by a mere gratuitous favour, but a ransom price has been paid, in consideration of which he is set free. The original owner receives back his alienated and lost possession because he has bought it back " with a price." This price or ransom ( Gr. lutron) is always said to be Christ, his blood, his death. He secures our redemption by the payment of a ransom. ( See { REDEMPTION}.) RANSOM, contracts, war. An agreement made between the commander of a capturing vessel with the commander of a vanquished vessel, at sea, by which the former permits the latter to depart with his vessel, and gives him a safe conduct, in consideration of a sum of money, which the commander of the vanquished vessel, in his own name, and in the name of the owners of his vessel and cargo, promises to pay at a future time named, to the other. 2. This contract is usually made in writing in duplicate, one of which is kept by the vanquished vessel which is its safe conduct; and the other by the conquering vessel, which is properly called ransom bill. 3. This contract, when made in good faith, and not locally prohibited, is valid, and may be enforced. Such contracts have never been prohibited in this country. 1 Kent, Com. 105. In England they are generally forbidden. Chit. Law of Nat. 90 91; Poth. Tr. du Dr. de Propr. n. 127. Vide 2 Bro. Civ. Law, 260; Wesk. 435; 7 Com. Dig. 201; Marsh. Ins. 431; 2 Dall. 15; 15 John. 6; 3 Burr. 1734. The money paid for the redemption of such property is also called the ransom.
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