detrect
English
Etymology
From Latin detrectare, from de + tractare, intensitive of trahere (“to draw”).
Verb
detrect (third-person singular simple present detrects, present participle detrecting, simple past and past participle detrected)
- (obsolete) To refuse; to decline.
- Holinshed
- to detrect the battle
- Holinshed
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for detrect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)