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A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

a place. [R.] Chaucer. The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses. Clarendon.

A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.

r John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days. Clarendon.

o insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him Shak. By nature did what was by law required. Dryden.

A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice. Kent.

To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively. I here resign my government to thee. Shak. Lament not, Eve, but patiently…

The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.

ng the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. F. C. Calvert.

for help, relief, or advantage. The king thought it time to resort to other counsels. Clarendon.

Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [Obs.] With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands. Chapman. With thy equals familiar, yet respective. Lord Burleigh.

To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. [U.S.]

ent; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to Ant: accelerate.

To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.

That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state. I am forced to lay my reverence by. Shak.

at it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void. Blackstone.