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Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

One who renders account; one accountable.

To render quiet; to soothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in…

To render sharp or keen. [R.] "To acuminate even despair." Cowper.

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

ing other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.

as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor.