To rent or lease out property or land to another; to grant a lease or tenancy.
From Old French 'arenter,' derived from 'rente' (income or rent), itself from Latin 'rendita' (rendered or paid). The verb form became less common as 'rent' and 'lease' became standard.
This verb is nearly extinct in modern English, but it remains a ghost word in legal documents—when you see 'arrent' in old property deeds, you're looking at the linguistic ancestor of the entire rental market!
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