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[ You all do know this mantle. ments. "O perle," quoth I, "of rych renoun , So watz hit me dere that thou con deme, In thys veray avysyoun." Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1183. Better it is to haue Renowme among the good sorte then to be lorde over the whole world. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 12. I loved her old renown , her stainle fame What better proof than that I loathed her shame? Lowell , To G. W. Curtis. 21. Report; rumor; éclat. coAnd they diden socheat the the child hout IMG:content-1967.png:[blocks in formation] en be-net he fer from hem. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 285. So crates,..by the... uniuersall renoume of all peo- ple, was approued to be the wisest man of all Grecia. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 22. The Rutherfoords. with grit renown , Convoy'd the town of Jedbrugh out. Raid of the Reid swire (Child's Ballads, VI. 132). 31. A token of fame or reputation; an honor; a dignity. For I ride on the milk-white steed, And aye nearest the town; Because I was a christen'd knight, They gave me that renown . The Young Tamlane (Child's Ballads, I. 121). 41. Haughtine . Then out spake her father, he spake wi' renown, "Some of you that are maidens, ye'll loose aff her gown." Lord Salton and Auchanachie (Child's Ballads, II. 169). =Syn. 1. Fame, Honor, etc. (see glory1, n.), repute, note, distinction, name. renowned (re-nound'), p. a. [ To ben riht cleer and renomed . Chaucer , Boëthius, iii. prose 2. And made his compere a godsone of hys, that he hadden houe fro the font stone, and was cleped after the kynge ban Bawdewyn, whiche was after full renomede . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 124. They that durst to strike At so example and unblamed a life As that of the renowned Germanic us. B. Jonson, Sejanus, ii. 4. =Syn. Celebrated , Illustrious , etc. (see famous ), famed, far-famed. renownedly (re-nou'ned-li), adv . With, or so as to win, renown; with fame or celebrity. Imp . Dict. renowner (re-nou'nėr), n. 1. One who gives renown or spreads fame. Through his great renowner I have wrought, And my safe saile to sacred anchor brought. Chapman, Ody ey, xxiii. Look, in this place ran Ca ius' dagger through; See what a rent the envious Casca made. church. Shak ., J. C., iii. 2. 179. Heer sing I Isaac's civill Brauls and Broils; Jacobs Revolt; their Cities sack, their Spoils: Their cursed Wrack, their Godded Calues; the rent Of th' Hebrew Tribes from th' Is beans Regiment. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. We care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. =Syn. Tear, rupture, rift. = Milton , Areopagitica, p. 53. rent2 (rent), n. [ rent , rente = D. G. Dan. rente = Sw. ränta , rente , F. rente , income, Pr. revenue, rent, annuity, pension, funds, rent a , rend a = Sp. rent a = Pg. rend a = It. ren dita , income, revenue, rent, reddita (sc. pecunia ), 'money paid,' fem. of redditus , pp. of reddere , give back, pay, yield: see render2 . ] 11. Income; revenue; receipts from any reg IMG:content-1968.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In law: ( a ) A compensation or return made periodically, or fixed with reference to a period of time, for the po e ion and use of property of any kind. Of all the tulkes of Troy, to telle them by name, Was non so riche of renttes , ne of renke godes, Of castels full close, & mony clene tounes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5945. Thus the poete preiseth the pocok for hus federes, And the riche for hus rentes , othere ryche e in hus schoppe. Piers Plouman (C), xv. 185. Money, if kept by us, yields no rent , and is liable to lo . Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 213. ( b ) Technically, a definite compensation or re- turn reserved by a lease, to be made period i- cally, or fixed with reference to a period of ten- ure, and payable in money, produce, or other chattels or labor, for the po e ion and use of land or buildings. Compensation of any other nature is not termed rent , because not enforceable in the same manner. The time of paying rents is either by the par- ticular appointment of the parties in the deed, or by ap- point ment of law, but the law does not control the expre appointment of the parties, when such appointment will answer their intention. In England Michael mas and Lady-day are the usual days appointed for payment of rents; and in Scotland Martin mas and Whit sunday. Take (deer Son) to thee This Farm's demains, And th' only Rent that of it I reserue is One Trees fair fruit, to shew thy sute and service. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. Rent is said to be due at the first moment of the day appointed for payment, and in arrear at the first moment of the day following. Encyc. Brit ., XIV. 275. (c) The right to such compensation, particularly in respect of lands. Rents, at common law, are of three kinds: rent -service, rent-charge or fee - farm rent rent, and rent -seck. Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge, or fee - farm rent, is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distre for rent in arrear (in other words, it is a charge on lands, etc., in the form of rent, in favor of one who is not the landlord); rent - seck is a like rent, but without any clause of distre . There are also rents of a ize, certain established rents of freeholders and copyholders of manors, which cannot be varied: also called quit - rents. These, when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents or black mail. 3. In pol it. econ., that part of the produce of the soil which is left after deducting what is nece ary to the support of the producers (including the wages of the laborers), the interest on the nece ary capital, and a supply of seed for the next year; that part of the produce of a given piece of cultivated land which it yields over and above that yielded by the poorest land in cultivation under equal circumstances in respect to transportation, etc. The rent theoretically 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 indestructible powers of the soil. It is often, however, confounded with the interest and profit of capital, and, in popular 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 exce 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. IMG:content-1969.png:[blocks in formation] rentable (ren'ta-bl), a. pable of being rented. rent a get (ren'tāj), n. [OF. rentage, rentage, Nor can we pay the fine and rentage due. P. Fletcher , Purple Island, vii. rental (ren'tal), п . [ rental , rent2 + -al. Cf. OF. rental , charged with rent.] 1. A schedule or an account of rents, or a roll 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 , Red gauntlet, letter xi. The nations were admonished to cease their factions; the heads of houses were ordered to surrender all their charters, donations, statutes, bulls, and papistical muniments, and to transmit a complete rental and inventory of all their effects to their Chancellor. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church. of Eng., iv. 2. The gro amount of rents drawn from an estate or other property: as, the rental of the estate is five you sand 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 called rentallers or kindly tenants. [ rental + -er1.] rentaller (ren'tal-er), n . One who holds a rental right. See rental . Many of the more respectable farmers were probably descended of the rentallers or kindly tenants described in our law books, who tormed in the Middle Ages a very numerous and powerful body. Edinburgh Rev. , CXLV. 194. rent-arrear (rent'a-rēr"), n . Unpaid rent. Rent is that portion of the regular net product of a piece of land which remains after deducting the wages of labor rent-charge (rent'chärj), n . See rent2 , 2 ( c ). and the interest on the capital usual in the country inrent-day (rent'dā), n . The day for paying rent. corp orated into it. W. Roscher , Pol. Econ. (trans.), II. § 149. No part of Ricardo's theory is more elementary or more unchallenged than this, that the rent of land constitutes no part of the price of bread, and that high rent is not the cause of dear bread, but dear bread the cause of high rent . Rae , Contemporary Socialism, p. 428. 4. An endowment; revenue. The kynge hym graunted, and yaf hym rentes , and lefte with hym of his auoir grete plente for to make the hospi. tall, ther lefte the clerke this manere, that was after a goode man and holy of lif. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 369. Alwyn Childe, a Citizen of London, founded the Monastery of S. Saviour's at Bermondsey in South wark, and gave the Monks there divers Rents in London. Baker , Chronicles, p. 20. Annual rent. See annual. - Black rent. (a) See black. (b) See def. 2 (c). - Double rent, rent payable by a tenant who continues in po e ion after the time for which he has received notice to quit until the time of his quitting po e ion. Forehand rent. (a) A fine or premium given by the le ee at the time of taking his lease: otherwise called a fore - gift or income. (b) Rent paid in advance.Paschal rents. See paschal. Peppercorn rents. See peppercorn. - Rents of a ize. See def. 2 (c). - Tithe Rent-charge Redemption Act, an English statute of 1885 (48 and 49 Vict., c. 32), which extends the Commutation of Tithes Act (which see, under commutation ) to all rents or payments charged on lands, by virtue of any act, in lieu of tithes. rent2 (rent), v. [ And sette scoleres to scole or to som me other craftes; Releue religioun [religious orders) and renten hem bettere. Piers Plowman (B), vii. 32. Here is a stately Hospitall built by Ca achi, or Rosa, the Wife of great Soliman, richly rented, and nourishing many poore people. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 271. 2. To grant the po e ion and enjoyment of for a consideration in the nature of rent; let IMG:content-1970.png:[blocks in formation]