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Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.

To reverse. [Obs.] Whose shield he bears renverst. Spenser.

Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

A reversing. [Obs.]

To send back. [Obs.] "Not dismissing or renvoying her." Bacon.

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

Abhorrence. [Obs.] Locke.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

With abhorrence.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [R.]

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

In an adherent manner.

Suprarenal.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

Named before. Peacham.