Verb

(en verb)

To cause to become.

* , chapter=7

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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.

Verb

(en verb)

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:

To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].

* Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:

Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.

to feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.

* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet) , 3,1 (First Folio edition):

And ?o good Capulet , which name I tender
As dearely as my owne, be ?atisfied.

Verb

(en verb)

(formal) To offer, to give.

* Shakespeare

You see how all conditions, how all minds, tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.

* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.