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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Render  \Ren"der\  (r?n"d?r),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Rendered} 
  (-d?rd);p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Rendering}.]  [F.  rendre,  LL  rendre, 
  fr  L.  reddere;  pref.  red-,  re-,  re-  +  dare  to  give  See 
  {Date}time,  and  cf  {Reddition},  {Rent}.] 
  1.  To  return;  to  pay  back  to  restore. 
 
  Whose  smallest  minute  lost,  no  riches  render  may 
  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  To  inflict,  as  a  retribution;  to  requite. 
 
  I  will  render  vengeance  to  mine  enemies.  --Deut. 
  xxxii  41. 
 
  3.  To  give  up  to  yield;  to  surrender. 
 
  I  'll  make  her  render  up  her  page  to  me  --Shak. 
 
  4.  Hence  to  furnish;  to  contribute. 
 
  Logic  renders  its  daily  service  to  wisdom  and 
  virtue.  --I.  Watts. 
 
  5.  To  furnish;  to  state;  to  deliver;  as  to  render  an 
  account;  to  render  judgment. 
 
  6.  To  cause  to  be  or  to  become  as  to  render  a  person  more 
  safe  or  more  unsafe;  to  render  a  fortress  secure. 
 
  7.  To  translate  from  one  language  into  another;  as  to  render 
  Latin  into  English. 
 
  8.  To  interpret;  to  set  forth,  represent,  or  exhibit;  as  an 
  actor  renders  his  part  poorly;  a  singer  renders  a  passage 
  of  music  with  great  effect;  a  painter  renders  a  scene  in  a 
  felicitous  manner. 
 
  He  did  render  him  the  most  unnatural  That  lived 
  amongst  men.  --Shak. 
 
  9.  To  try  out  or  extract  (oil,  lard,  tallow,  etc.)  from  fatty 
  animal  substances;  as  to  render  tallow. 
 
  10.  To  plaster,  as  a  wall  of  masonry,  without  the  use  of 
  lath. 

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