Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , Act V:

O Error soone conceyu'd, / Thou neuer com'st vnto a happy byrth, / But kil'st the Mother that engendred thee.

To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).

* 1891 , (Henry James), "James Russell Lowell", Essays in London and Elsewhere , p.60:

Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him.

To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.

* , II.11:

Me thinks vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations unto goodnesse, which in us are ingendered .

* 1928 , "New Plays in Manhattan", Time , 8 Oct.:

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.

* 2009 , Jonathan Glancey, "The art of industry", The Guardian , 21 Dec.:

Manufacturing is not simply about brute or emergency economics. It's also about a sense of involvement and achievement engendered by shaping and crafting useful, interesting, well-designed things.

To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.

* Dryden

Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.

(obsolete) To copulate, to have sex.

* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), Leviathan :

But that the bodies of the reprobate, who make the kingdom of Satan, shall also be glorious or spiritual bodies, or that they shall be as the angels of God, neither eating, drinking, nor engendering .

* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book II:

I fled, but he pursu'd (though more, it seems, / Inflam'd with lust then rage) and swifter far, / Me overtook his mother all dismaid, / And in embraces forcible and foule / Ingendring with me, of that rape begot / These yelling Monsters.

Verb

(en verb)

(critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.

* 1992 , Anne Cranny-Francis, Engendered Fictions , p. 2:

As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered' (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they ' engender their consumers.

* 1996 , Steven C Ward, Reconfiguring Truth , p. xviii:

I focus on [...] the efforts of feminist critics of science to examine the engendered origins and implications of scientific rationality and modern epistemology.

Verb

(en verb)

To cause to become.

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To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

we may, at last, render our philosophy like that of Epictetus

To translate into another language.

to render Latin into English

To pass down.

To make over as a return.

To give; to give back.

to render an account of what really happened

* I. Watts

Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue.

to give up; to yield; to surrender.

* Shakespeare

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

(computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.

To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

(cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.

(construction) To cover a wall with a film of cement or plaster.

(nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.

(nautical) To yield or give way.

(Totten)

(obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.

* Spenser

whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may

(obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 41

I will render vengeance to mine enemies.