grant to (someone) the use of (something) on the understanding that it will be returned
Stewart asked me to lend him my car
the pictures were lent to each museum in turn
accommodate or adapt oneself to
John stiffly lent himself to her aromatic embraces
(in the Christian Church) the period preceding Easter, which is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. In the Western Church it runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, and so includes forty weekdays