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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ransom  \Ran"som\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ransomed};  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. 
 
  2.  To  exact  a  ransom  for  or  a  payment  on  [R.] 
 
  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. 




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