detrect

English

Etymology

From Latin dētrectō, from dē + tractō, frequentative of trahō (“to draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈtɹɛkt/

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To refuse; to decline.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:

     the Danes hearing that the Scottes were come, detrected no time, but forthwith prepared to give battayle

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)