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To interpret; to explain. [Obs.] My sweven [dream] rede aright. Chaucer.

To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner. He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.

as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. (b) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., fro…

e; to limit; to restrict. Addison. These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation I. Taylor.

ieved by ufologists to originate in outer space, but they are generally presumed to be misinterpretations of ordinary phenomena, illusions or imaginary objects. Fraudulent photographs purporting to show flying saucers are published from time to time.

To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander. To tell his tale might be interpreted into scandalizing the order. Sir W. Scott.

A word used by Jacob on his deathbed, and interpreted variously, as "the Messiah," or as the city "Shiloh," or as "Rest."

man salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical, and not to be taken literally.

Loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation. [Obs.] Bacon.

, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.

e; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies. You take me right. Bacon. Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else bu…

Passed along; handed down; transmitted. Among biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor. W. Withington.

ender into another language; to express the sense of in the words of another language; to interpret; hence, to explain or recapitulate in other words. Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.…

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

An interpreter. See Dragoman. [Obs.] And after, by the tongue, Her truchman, she reports the mind's each throw. B. Jonson.

To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. Locke.

who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [R.] Fuller.