2. Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in
force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.
3. To begin again; to recommence.
The last great age . . . renews its finished course.
Dryden. 4. To repeat; to go over again.
The birds-their notes renew.
Milton. 5. (Theol.) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Rom. xii. 2. Renew
(Re*new"), v. i. To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.
Renewability
(Re*new`a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality or state of being renewable. [R.]
Renewable
(Re*new"a*ble) a. Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure. Swift.
Renewal
(Re*new"al) n. The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.
Renewedly
(Re*new"ed*ly), adv. Again; once more. [U.S.]
Renewedness
(Re*new"ed*ness), n. The state of being renewed.
Renewer
(Re*new"er) n. One who, or that which, renews.
Reneye
(Re*neye") v. t. [See Renay.] To deny; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.]
For he made every man reneye his law.
Chaucer. Reng
(Reng) n. [See Rank, n.]
1. A rank; a row. [Obs.] "In two renges fair." Chaucer.
2. A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Renidification
(Re*nid`i*fi*ca"tion) n. (Zoöl.) The act of rebuilding a nest.
Reniform
(Ren"i*form) a. [L. renes kidneys + -form: cf. F. réniforme.] Having the form or shape of a
kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
Renitence
(Re*ni"tence Re*ni"ten*cy) n. [Cf. F. rénitence.] The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Sterne.
We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.
E. Darwin. Renitent
(Re*ni"tent) a. [L. renitens, -entis, p. pr. of renit to strive or struggle against, resist; pref. re-
re- + niti to struggle or strive: cf. F. rénitent.]
1. Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force. "[Muscles] soft and yet
renitent." Ray.
2. Persistently opposed.
