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[Lat.] Giocondo, under Louis XII., about 1502, and by Serlio and other Italian architects under Palazzi Van dram in i, Venice. Francis I. (1515 1547) and Henry II. These architects modified their ideas to suit the French taste, the general arrangement of the Gothic churches being retained, and only the Renai ance system of decoration substituted for the Gothic; the ground-plan, the pro *1. Reasonable, fair. "Of tong she was trew and renable ." Gwaine and Gawaine, 208. 2. Glib, loquacious. (Prov. Eng.) (In this sense apparently regarded as formed from the verb renne =to run.) *rěn-a-bly, adv . [Eng. renab ( le ); -ly.] Fairly, reasonably. "Speke as renably and faire and wel." Chaucer: C. Т., 211.