1. To send or order back.
2. Law.
   1. To send back to custody.
   2. To send back (a case) to a lower court with instructions about further proceedings.

[Middle English remaunden, from Old French remander, from Late Latin remandāre, to send back word : Latin re-, re- + Latin mandāre, to order.]

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