Render

n. [From rend.] One who rends.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. RENDERED; p. pr. & vb. n. RENDERING.] [Fr. rendre, Pr. rendre, reddre, Sp. rendir, O. Sp. & Pg. render, It. & L. Lat. rendere, from Lat. reddere, with n inserted, from re, again, back, and dare, to give.]

1Sense 1. To return; to pay back; to restore.

Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.

2Sense 2. To inflict, as a retribution.

I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii. 41.

3Sense 3. To give on demand; to give; to assign; to surrender.

I'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.

4Sense 4. Hence, to furnish, to contribute; as, to render a service.

Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. Watts.

5Sense 5. To make up; to furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.

6Sense 6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress more secure or impregnable.

7Sense 7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English; also, to interpret, set forth, or bring into full expression to others, the meaning, spirit, and full effect of, as a passage in oratory, a piece or strain of music; as, an actor renders his part with much truth and accuracy; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.

8Sense 8. To represent; to exhibit. [Obs.]

He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.

9Sense 9. To boil down and clarify; as, to render tallow.

10Sense 10. To plaster roughly.

To render back, to return; to restore.

v. i. 1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession; to show. [Obs. and rare.] 2. (Naut.) To pass; to run; — said of the passage of a rope through a block, &c.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely. Totten.