▪ I. rendering, vbl. n.
(ˈrɛndərɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
1. The action of restoring, surrendering, yielding, giving, etc.; also, that which is yielded or given.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 429/2 Renderynge, reddicio. 1474 Caxton Chesse 95 God at the lenyng & the deuyll atte rendryng. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 605 To intreate or speake of the rendering of thys towne. 1646 Evance Noble Ord. 20 The rule of Gods rendrings to the Creature, is according to our workes. c 1685 P. Henry in M. Henry Wks. 1853 II. 746/2 Alas! our renderings are nothing to our receivings; we are like the barren field. 1872 Ruskin Eagle's Nest §213 Love itself is, in its highest state, the rendering of an exquisite praise to body and soul. 1889 Times 10 Dec. 9 The rendering in chromic acid is much higher for the Macedonian mineral. |
2. a. Translation, interpretation.
| 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 217 Those..Translators..put no more difference betwixt their rendring of Davids Hebrew word, and S. Peters Greek word, but pursue, and ensue. a 1647 Filmer Patriarcha ii. §1 (Rtldg.) 22 In the rendering of this place the elder translations have been more faithful. 1774 J. Bryant Mythol. (1775) I. 8 By which is meant the land of Metzor, a different rendering of Mysor. 1863 D. Wilson Preh. Ann. II. iv. iv. 286 Some of them are open to conjectural renderings of diverse significance. 1883 M. Arnold in 19th Cent. XIII. 589 Correct rendering is very often conspicuously absent from our authorised version of the Old Testament. |
b. Reproduction, representation, performance.
| 1862 S. Lucas Secularia 67 Almost all the copyists of history hitherto have been more or less mistaken in their rendering of the past. 1881 Athenæum 10 Sept. 347/2 The rendering of the cantata..was excellent. 1893 Times 29 Apr. 13/3 The painter has shown himself extremely skilful in his rendering of curious effects of light. |
3. techn. a. The action of plastering with a first coat; the work so done; the plaster thus applied. Also (in Ireland), a coating of mortar used on the underside of slating to keep the slates firm.
| 1659 Howell Vocab. li, Lime, oxhair,..rendring, clear lime. 1663 Gerbier Counsel 81 The workmanship only in..rendering two pence a yard. 1667 Primatt City & C. Build. 89 For Plaistering, Lathing and Rendring at one shilling a yard. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 383 Rendring on a Brick-wall is Three-pence a Yard. 1798 J. Hutton Course Math. (1828) II. 88 Plasterers' work is of two kinds; namely, ceiling, which is plastering on laths; and rendering, which is plastering on walls. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 613 By set is denoted a superficial coat of fine stuff or putty upon the rendering. 1889 21st Rep. Dep. Kpr. Irel. 18 The dust and broken mortar, which accumulate owing to the fall of the rendering from the roof. |
b. Chiefly Naut. Yielding, slipping, or running out of tackle or lines.
| 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Rendering, as a sea⁓term,..is usually expressed of a..tackle, laniard, or lashing,..in contra-distinction to sticking or jamming. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1916/1 To rack a tackle is to seize the parts together and prevent rendering. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 227/2 Placing the thumb lightly upon the spool [of the fishing-rod] to control the rendering of the line. |
c. Extracting or melting of fat, etc. Also concr. and attrib.
| 1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Labrador I. p. xiii, Rendering oil, a sealer's term for melting fat into oil. c 1865 Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 94/1 Another mode of rendering, is to submit the melted tallow to the action of steam. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1916/2 Rendering apparatus, an apparatus for extracting oil or lard from fatty animal matters. 1945 ABC of Cookery (Ministry of Food) xii. 46 Rendering means melting to extract the fat from surrounding tissues. 1979 N. & I. Lyons Champagne Blues 174 We cook the steak in renderings of pork belly. |
▪ II. ˈrendering, ppl. a. rare.
[f. render v. + -ing2.]
† a. Giving a reason. b. Yielding. Obs.
| a. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lx. 13 The copulative (and) is almost by the consente of all men turned here into the rendering particle (for). 1636 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. xxii, Of Conjunctions..Rendering are such as yield the cause of a thing going before; as for, because. |
| b. a 1600 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxviii. 33 The rendring reid, whilk bouis with euerie blast. |