Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Redundant

Redundant (-dant) , adjective

[Latin redundans, -antis, present participle of redundare: compare French redondant. See Redound.]

1.
Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. — Arbuthnot
2.
Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. — I. Watts