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Webster 1828 Edition

Detrect

DETRECT

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Verb.
T.
[L.] To refuse. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

detrect

detrect

English

Verb

detrect ‎(third-person singular simple present detrects, present participle detrecting, simple past and past participle detrected)

  1. (obsolete) To refuse; to decline.
    To detrect the battle. — Holinshed.

Etymology

From Latin detrectare, from de + tractare, intensitive of trahere ‎(“to draw”).

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