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s forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon.

itle vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a co…

In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor. The reverend abbot . . . honorably received him. Shak. Why did I not more honorably starve Dryden.

Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.

One who renders humane.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

Rendered idiotic; befooled. [R.] Tennyson.

To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse. [R.]

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

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.

arily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse. "The impulsion of conscience." Clarendon. "Divine impulsion prompting." Milton.

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