rent 
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rent and rcnt-seck Rent-seniee is when some corporal rentable (ron'ta-bl), it. [< rcuft + -nMc.] Ca- 
service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money ; i , 
rent-charije, at fee-farm rent, is when the owner of the ' *" 
rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the rentaget (rt'ii ta.]), n. [< Oi . mttage, rentage, 
l:\inl, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of < renter, give rent to: see rent 2 and -tif/e.] 
distress for rent in arrear (in other words, it is a charge on Rent. 
lands, etc., in the form of rent, in favor of one who is not 
VT O can we ,, fl , ,,,,,, J.. P 
an we pay tlle / ^ '," ',' {* 
J ' * letehcr - PU| 
the landlord); rent-neck is a like rent, but without any 
clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain es- 
tablished rents of freeholders and copyholders of manois, rental (ren'tal), n. [< ME. rental, < rent- + 
which cannot be varied : also called quit-rents. These, - a \. Cf. OF. "rental, charged with rent.l 1 A 
when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contra- sphpdiilp or a m,t nf 
distinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, ' 
called black rents or black mail. 
3. In polit. econ., that part of the produce of 
the soil which is left after deducting what is 
necessary to the support of the producers (in- 
clinling the wages of the laborers), the interest 
on the necessary capital, and a supply of seed . The "at" " 8 were admonished to cease their factions; 
t'nv flip upvr vp'iv that riovt /\f tVia nWirhmn nf the heads of houses were ordered to surrender all their 
the produce ot chartel .^ donations , statutes, bulls, and papistical muni- 
a given piece of cultivated land which it yields ments, and to transmit a complete rental and inventory 
over and above that yielded by the poorest of all their effects to their Chancellor. 
vi 
vli - 
schedule or an account of rents, or a 
wherein the rents of a manor or an estate are 
set down; a rent-roll. 
I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday-book I 
am clear it has been a rental of back-ganging tenants. 
Scott, Kedgauntlet, letter xi. 
land in cultivation under equal circumstances 
in respect to transportation, etc. The rent theo- 
retically goes to the owner of the soil, whether cultivator 
or landlord. Also called economic rent. 
Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which 
is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and in- 
destructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, con- 
founded with the interest and proflt of capital, and, in pop- 
ular language, the term is applied to whatever is annually 
paid by a farmer to his landlord. Ricardo, Pol. Econ., ii. 
The rent, therefore, which any land will yield, is the ex- 
cess of its produce beyond what would be returned to the 
same capital if employed on the worst land in cultivation. 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., II. xvi. 3. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church, of Eng., iv. 
2. The gross amount of rents drawn from an 
estate or other property: as, the rental of the 
estate is five thousand a year Minister's rental. 
See minister. Rental right, a species of lease at low 
rent, usually for life. The holders of such leases were 
K rental + -ll 
. K tental +- -er^.J 
Une who holds a rental right. See rental. 
Many of the more respectable farmers were probably 
descended of the rentallerg or kindly tenants described in 
our law books, who formed in the Middle Ages a very nu- 
merous and powerful body. Edinburgh Rev., CXLV. 194. 
Rent is that portion of the regular net product of a piece rent-arrear (rent'a-rer"), n. Unpaid rent, 
of land which remains after deducting the wages of labor rpnt pTiariro fi'pnr'pharil !OA wu/2 o c,A 
and the interest on the capital usual in the country in- ? f-cnarge (lent cnaij), n. bee f*lj, 2 (C). 
corporated into it. rent-day (rent'da), n. The day for paying rent. 
W. Roseher, Pol. Econ. (trans.), II. 149. rente (roiit), . [< F. rente: see rent*.) Annual 
No part of Ricardo's theory is more elementary or more income; revenue; rent; interest; specifically, 
unchallenged than this, that the rent of land constitutes in the plural, rentes (or rentes stir I'etat), sums 
no -part of the price of bread, and that high rent is .not the pa id annually by a government as interest on 
public loans; hence, the bonds or stocks on 
which such interest is paid. 
renter 1 (ren'ter), u. [< OF. rentier, F. rentier 
(= Pr. rendier = OCat. render = Sp. rentero = 
Pg. rendeiro), a tenant, renter, < rente, rent: 
see rent 2 .] 1. One who leases an estate; more 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 369. commonly, the lessee or tenant who takes an 
Alwyn Childe, a Citizen of London, founded the Monas- estate or a tenement on rent, 
tery of S. Saviour's at Bermondsey in Southwark, and gave ,,. 
the Monks there divers Rents in London The estate wnl not be let for one penny more or less to 
Baker, Chronicles p. 29. renter, amongst whomsoever the rent he pays be di- 
Annual rent. See annual. Black rent, (a) See black. Lodce ' 
(6) See def. 2 (c). Double rent, rent payable bya tenant 2. One who rents or hires anything, 
who continues in possession after the ^time^for which he renter 2 (ren'ter), v. t. [Also ranter; < F. ren- 
T, < re-, again, + en-, in, + 
cause of dear bread, but dear bread the cause of high rent. 
Roe, Contemporary Socialism, p. 428. 
4. An endowment ; revenue. 
The kynge hym graunted, and yaf hym rentes, and lefte 
with hym of his auoir grete plentefor to make the hospi- 
tall, and ther lefte the clerke in this manere, that was 
after a goode man and holy of lit. 
en by the lessee at the time of taking his lease: otherwise 
called a fore-gift or income. (6) Rent paid in advance. 
Paschal rents. See paschal. Peppercorn rents. See 
peppercorn. Rents of assize. See def. 2 (c). Tithe 
Rent-charge Redemption Act, an English statute of 
1885 (48 and 49 Viet., c. 32), which extends the Commuta- 
tion of Tithes Act (which see, under commutation) to all 
tratre, draw: see trace, tract, etc.] 1. In top- 
estry, to work new warp into in order to restore 
the original pattern or design. Hence 2 To 
finpdraw- sew tnsrptlipv thn pHooa nf t n 
&w f ' j~JJ tog l t lel . as the edges ot two 
P ieces ot Cloth, without doubling them, so that 
the seam is scarcely visible. 
, 
rents or payments charged on lands, by virtue of any act, rentercr (reu'ter-er), n. [< renter 4 * + - 
* [< ME. rente,,,, < OF. renter, 
do w secue an income to 
"specially in tapestry-work. 
renwardenen'ter-warMn), The war- 
den of a com P an y who receives rents. 
rent-free (rent'fre), adv. Without payment of 
rPTir 
A U 8ucn inmates which fell to decay, and so to be kept 
by ? PHsh they were to be continued in their houses 
" Y ge 
And sette scoleres to scole or to somme other craftes ; 
Releue religioun [religious orders] and renten hem bet- 
tere. piers Plowman (B), vii. 32. 
Here is a stately Hospitall built by Cassachi, or Rosa, 
the Wife of great Soliiuan, richly rented, and nourishing 
Purcha*, Pilgrimage, p. 271. Cmrt am , Times of chaftes , m 
: rent-gatherert, . [ME. rente-gaderer; < rent 2 
+ gatiierer.] A collector of rents. Prompt. 
h nourable.society should rfntKoiWla'), . [F. rentier: see renter^.] 
Swift, To Mr. Alderman Barber, March 30, 1737. One who has a fixed income, as from lands, 
3. To take and hold for a consideration in the stocks, etc. ; a ^fund-holder, 
nature of rent: as, the tenant rents his farm rent-roll (rent rol), n. A rental; a list or ac- 
on lease. 
for a year. 
Not happier . . 
In forest planted by a father's hand 
Than in five acres now of rented land. 
Who married, who was like to be, and how 
The races went, and who would rent the hall. 
count of rents or income. Seerentttl. 
Godfrey Bertram . . . succeeded to a long pedigree and 
a short rent-roll, like many lairds of that period. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, ii. 
t-* (rent'sek), . See rent 2 , 2 (c). 
rent-service (rent'ser"vis), n. See rent 2 , 2 (c). 
__________________ renuent (ren'u-ent), a. [< L. renuen(t-)s, ppr. 
Tennyson, Audley Court, of rennere, nod back the head, deny by a mo- 
4. To hire; obtain the use or benefit of for tion of the head, disapprove (> Pg. reituir, re- 
st consideration, without lease or other formal- fuse ; cf. Sp. renuencia, reluctance), < re-, back, 
ity, but for a more or less extended time: as. to + "utiere (in comp. abintcre, etc.). nod: see nu- 
rent a vow-boat; to rent a piano. =Syn. 3 and 4. tntion.'] Throwing back the head: specifically 
Lease, etc. See hirei. ' applied in anatomy to muscles which have this 
II. intrans. To be leased or let for rent: effect. 
as, an estate rents for five thousand dollars a renuleif, r. An obsolete form of renovel. 
renule 2 (ren'ul), . [< NL. *renulus, dim. of 
C'^t, f. i. An obsolete variant of run/. L. ren, kidney: see ren s , and cf. renoulvs.] A 
rent't (rent). A Middle English contracted small kidney; a renal lobe or lobule, several of 
torni ot reiult'tli, Bd person singular present in- which may compose a kidney. Enciic Brit 
dicative of rewrfi. Cliaucer. XV. 366. " 
reobtain 
renumber (re-num'ber), r. /. [< re- + iiumtirr.] 
To count or number again ; affix a new number 
to, as a house. 
renumerate (re-nu'me-rat), r. t. [< L. rniii- 
iiii-i-dtim, pp. of mmmtrare, count over (> It. ri- 
ii n ni/ rare), < re-, again, + numerare, number: 
see numerate, and cf. renumber."] To count or 
number again. Imp. Diet. 
renunciance (re-nun 'sians), n. [< L. renun- 
tian(t-)x, ppr. of rennntiare, renounce: see re- 
nounce.] Renunciation. [Rare.] 
Yet if they two . . . each, in silence, in tragical renun- 
ciance, did find that the other was all too-lovely? 
Carlyle, i'rench Kev., II. v. 3. 
renunciation (re-nun-si-a'shon), 11. [< OF. re- 
nunciation, renoncialion, F. renonciation = Pr. 
renunciatio = Sp. renunciacion = Pg. renuncia- 
<;ao = It. riiiiii,~it/:ione, rcnun:ia:ione, < L. re- 
nuntiatio(n-), renunciiitio(n-), a renouncing, < 
rentmtiare, pp. rcnnntiatus, renounce: see re- 
nounce.'] The act of renouncing, (o) A disowning 
or disclaiming ; rejection. 
He that loves riches can hardly believe the doctrine of 
poverty and renunciation of the world. Jer. Taylor. 
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne 
willingly. George Eliot, Mill on the Floss,' iv. 3. 
(6) In law, the legal act by which a person abandons a 
right acquired, but without transferring it to another : ap- 
plied particularly in reference to an executor or trustee 
who has been nominated in a will, or other instrument 
creating a trust, but who, having an option to accept it, 
declines to do so, and in order to avoid any liability ex- 
pressly renounces the office. In Scots law the term is also 
used in reference to an heir who is entitled, if he chooses, 
to succeed to heritable property, but, from the extent of 
the encumbrances, prefers to refuse it. (c) In liturgies, 
that part of the baptismal service in which the candidate, 
either in person or by his sureties, renounces the world, 
the flesh, and the devil. Renunciation of a lease, in 
Scotland, the surrender of a lease. = Syn. (a) Abandon- 
ment, relinquishment, surrender. See renounce. 
renunciatory (re-nun 'si-a-to-ri), a. [< ML. re- 
nuntiatorius, < Li. renuntiare, renounce : see re- 
nounce.] Of or pertaining to renunciation. 
renverset (ren-vers'),t'- * [Also ranverse; < 
OF. reuverser, overthrow, overturn, < re-, back, 
+ enverser, overturn, invert, < enr-ers, against, 
toward, with, < L. inverstis, turned upside down, 
inverted: see inverse.] 1. To overthrow; over- 
turn; upset; destroy. 
God forbid that a Business of so high a Consequence as 
this . . . should be ranversed by Differences 'twixt a few 
private Subjects, tho' now public Ministers. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 20. 
2. To turn upside down ; overthrow. 
First he his beard did shave, and fowly shent, 
Then from him reft his shield, and it renverst. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 37. 
Whiles all my hopes were to the winds disperst, 
Erected whiles, and whiles againe renuerst. 
Stirling, Aurora, st. 77. 
renverse (ren-vers'), a. [< renverse, v.; cf. F. 
adv. a la renverse, on one's back, upside down.] 
In her., same as reversed. 
renversementt (ren-vers'nignt), n. [< OF. ren- 
versement, < renverser, reverse : see renverse and 
-ment.] The act of renversing. 
A total renversement of the order of nature. 
Stttkeleu, Pateographia Sacra, p. 60. 
renvoyt (ren-voi'), v. t. [< OF. renveier, ren- 
voyer, F. renvoyer (= It. rinviare), send back, < 
re-, back, + envoyer, send : see envoy 1 ."] To send 
back. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VIII. 
renvoyt (ren-voi'), n. [< OF. renroy. renvoi, F. 
renvoi, a sending back : see renroy, .] The act 
of sending back or dismissing home. 
The rcnmy of the Ampelonians was ill taken by the royal 
vine. Howell, Vocall Forrest. (Latham.) 
renyt, v. i. and t. [Also renay; < ME. renyeti, 
reneyen, reneien, renayen, < OF. renter, render, 
renoier, F. renter, < ML. renegare, deny: see rent- 
gate^ and cf. renege, a doublet of reiiy. Cf. deny, 
deiiay.] To renounce; abjure; disown; aban- 
don; deny. 
That Ydole is the God of false Cristene, that ban reneyed 
hire Feythe. Mandevillf, Travels, p. 173. 
For though that thou reneyed hast my lay, 
As other wrecches han doon many a day, . . . 
If that thou live, thou shall repenten this. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 336. 
renyet, . [ME., < OF. reiiie, < ML. renegatus, 
one who has denied his faith, a renegade: see 
renegate.] A renegade. 
Raynalde of the rodes, and rebelle to Criste, 
Pervertede with Paynyms that Cristene persewes; . . . 
The renye relys abowte and rnsches to the erthe. 
Marts Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2795. 
reobtain (re-ob-tan'), v. t. [< re- + obtain.] To 
obtain again. 
I came to re-obtaine my dignitie, 
And in the throne to seate my sire againe. 
Mir. for Mags., p. 762. 
