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Quotation dates: 1531-1660
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Rand(e)ring, vbl. n. [e.m.E. rend(e)ring, late ME renderynge (Prompt. Parv.), Rander v.] The action of rendering, in senses 3, 5 and 10 of Rander v.The usage in the quot. f. Rothes Affairs Kirk may properly derive from some other sense of the verb.(1) 1531 Bell. Boece II 160.
Concerning the randering of the town 1533 Id. Livy II 214/11.
Thai wald nocht inclyne thare hertis to na deditioun or randering 1533 Boece 130b.
Insulanis … war compellit to randering 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII 28/2. a1578 Pitsc. I 23/9. a1578 Ib. 184/22.
He … delyuerit the keyis of the castell in signe and taikin of the randering thairof 1607 Criminal Trials III 48.
Ȝou sall … presentlie send chairges of tressoune, for the randering of his castellis and houssis — 1638 Rothes Affairs Kirk 151.
The reasones against the randering of the covenant(2) 1616 Mar & Kellie MSS 75.
Refusall of the randring of his duarie in kess of ether of thair deths — a1660 Coll. Aberd. & B. 192.
But fourtein scoir chalderes of meill and beir was a sore tentatione and he could not weell indure the randering back of such a morsell(3) 1585 Edinb. Univ. Chart. 97.
Randring of compt upoun the administratioun of the said office
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