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.

   detrect to do something

   • 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

Related terms

• detrectation

References

• “detrect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.