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

To tender, as an oath. Swear . . . to keep the oath that we administer. Shak.

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.

ade to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Lovingly; with tender care. [Obs.] Shak.

A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. All his affections are set on his own country. Macaulay.…

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

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.…

To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

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.

ng 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.