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Remand   /rɪmˈænd/   Listen
Remand

noun
1.
The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial).
verb
(past & past part. remanded; pres. part. remanding)
1.
Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision.  Synonyms: remit, send back.
2.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"





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... the boys once more to his presence, and they trooped in like three prisoners brought up on remand to hear their ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
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... only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day: he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become blind in the house of bondage. But, let them gaze on, and ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks
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... I ever expect to escape to a country where I could be a free man? Even should I escape to the northern states the fugitive slave law, which was then in full force, would remand me back to slavery, and it was a long, tedious, and perilous journey to Canada. I was going to make ...
— Biography of a Slave - Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson • Charles Thompson
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... Canal, and a watchman on duty had pulled her out; she had been taken to a hospital and attended to. Late in the afternoon the policeman brought her to the court, where a charge of attempted suicide was brought against her. But little evidence was taken, and the magistrate ordered a week's remand. In the cells I had a few moments' conversation with her, but all I could get from her was the pitiful moan, "Why didn't they let me die? why didn't ...
— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
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... of all who had received and hospitably entertained him. The men of our times have been equally thankful to women for serving them, for hospitable entertainment, generous donations to the priest hood, lifting church debts, etc., and are equally ready to remand them to their "divinely appointed sphere," whenever women claim an equal voice in church creeds and discipline. Then the Marys, the Phebes, and the Priscillas are ordered to keep silence and to discuss all questions ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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