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To render godlike. By our own spirits are we deified. Wordsworth.

fer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into. Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. Gen. xl. 13. The constables have delivered her over. Shak. The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. Pope.…

The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

hey answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon.

To render democratic.

manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon.

orrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency. The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoral…

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

ark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise. Abp. Thomson.

To render diabolical. [R.]

iritless, as liquor. To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. "There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch." Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). -- To die out, to cease gradually; as, th…

To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] Sir W. Temple.

To render difficult; to difficilitate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

To rend in pieces; to tear. [R.] Howell.

A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]

To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.