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Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon.

to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

To give over; to surrender; to yield. [Obs.] Spenser.

rman overruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman.

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

To render slow; to check; to curb. [Obs.] Hammond.

Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Clarendon.

Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate. The one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Bible (1551). A son owes…

To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents. I am pained at mJer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.

And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

To render parallel. [R.]

Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.

etting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense. Dryden. Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli. His sermons a livin…

To render parochial; to form into parishes.

he houses had not given their commissioners authority in the least particle to recede. Clarendon.

ver the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon.

e, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman. [She…