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To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.

That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper.

To render liable or subject to; to occasion. [Obs.] Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. Chapman.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.

To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

res. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

arth, or of a marble slab, etc. The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible. Addison.

f character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.

To render furious; to enrage; to exasperate. Those curls of entangled snakes with which Erinys is said to have infuriated Athemas and Ino. Dr. H. More.

To recommend; to render easy or agreeable; -- followed by to. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott. What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us Hammond.

To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.