| 释义 |
▪ I. detain, v.|dɪˈteɪn|
Forms: 5–7 deteyn(e, 6–7 detein(e, deteign(e, detayn(e, detaine, (7 deten), 7– detain.
[Late ME. deteine, deteyne, a. OF. detenir (12th c. in Littré), detener (Britton) = Pr. and Sp. detener, Cat. detenir, It. ditenere:—Rom. type *dē-tenēre for L. dētinēre, to hold off, keep back, detain, f. de- I. 2 + tenēre to hold. For the root-vowel cf. contain, maintain, sustain, retain.]
1. a. trans. To keep in confinement or under restraint; to keep prisoner. spec. To place (a political offender) in confinement.
[1292Britton i. v. §3 Ou si maliciousement le fet detener.] 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 145 The peres of fraunce beyng thus assyeged and deteyned. 1548Hall Chron. 10 A traytor..whiche is apprehended and deteigned in prisone for his offence. 1605Camden Rem. 16 When King Richard first was deteined prisoner. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. lix. 279 He was detained in strict confinement. 1884M. E. Braddon Flower & Weed 139 ‘Beg your pardon, sir,’ said the constable..‘I shall be obliged to detain you till this business is settled.’ 1918Rep. Comm. Rev. Conspiracies 86 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 9190) VIII, Such men are the leaders and organizers of the movement. They are now detained or their arrest is intended under Regulation III of 1818. 1940J. Anderson in Hansard Commons 23 May 277, I have found it my duty, in the exercise of my powers under Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, to direct that Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Member of Parliament, be detained.
†b. pass. To be ‘holden’ or possessed with (infirmity, disease, etc.). Obs.
a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's 18 With this so grete A sykenes was he deteynyd. 1549Chaloner Erasmus on Folly T iij b, To be deteigned with suche a spece of madnesse. 1660H. Bloome Archit. C b, A Maide of the City Corinthia..detained with sicknesse, dyed.
2. a. To keep back, withhold; esp. to keep back what is due or claimed. ? Obs.
c1535in Froude Short Stud. (1876) I. 422 The said abbot hath detained and yet doth detain servants wages. a1625Fletcher & Massinger Elder Bro. v. i, My sword forced from me too, and still detained. 1670Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull Wks. I. 153 To call to account such persons as detained money in their hands given charitably. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes v. 221 These Tithes..have been granted by the King..but afterwards by the instinct of the Devil many have detained them. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxiv. 172 No longer then..Detain the relics of great Hector dead..restore the slain. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 855 The form of the writ..is sometimes in the debet and detinet, and sometimes in the detinet only: that is, the writ states..that the defendant owes and unjustly detains the debt or thing in question, or only that he unjustly detains it. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 288 The interest of the sum fraudulently detained in the Exchequer by the Cabal.
†b. To keep (a person) from his right. Obs.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 80 Hereby the poore pastors are deteined from their right, and almost beggered.
†3.
a. To keep, retain (in a place or position, in a state or condition, or in one's possession). Obs. (exc. as associated with 4.)
1541Wyatt Defence Wks. (1861) p. xxv, That in all accusations the defendant might detain unto him counsel. 1578Banister Hist. Man v. 66 Some [glandules] are strewed as beddes vnto Veynes, and Arteries, to deteine them from hurt. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall xix. (Jam. Suppl.), To dedicate the same thing a Kirk, and yet deteene it a buriall. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 195 Rivers mentioned in the Scriptures, which to this day detayne their names. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 41 The inhabitants of Spaine are detained in superstition, by the vigilancy of the Inquisition. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 159 When we fix and detain them [our eyes] too long upon the same object.
†b. To hold, hold down: transl. dētinēre of the Vulgate. Obs.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) Rom. i. 18 Those men that deteine the veritie of God in iniustice [1611 hold: Wycl., Tind., Cranm., Geneva, withhold: Rev. V. hold down: Gr. κατεχόντων]. 1593Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 100 That..they might learne not to detaine the trueth of God in unrighteousnes. a1694Tillotson Serm. (1743) VII. 1846 Men have a natural knowledge of God; if they contradict it by their life and practice, they are guilty of ‘detaining the truth of God in unrighteousness’.
†c. To hold or occupy with an armed force. Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. III. 103 A large and strong Fortresse..now detained by a Garison of Turkes. 1642Lanc. Tracts (Chetham Soc.) 56 Thus the Lord hath preserved an unwalled Towne from being destroyed or detained by a great Armie.
†d. To hold, engage, keep the attention of. Obs. (or merged in 4.)
c1585C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiii. 7 No good on earth doth my desires detaine. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iii. 301, I am mightily detained and allured with that grace and comeliness. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. Wks. (1841) 429 It wants those striking revolutions, those unexpected discoveries, so essential to engage and to detain a spectator.
†e. To constipate, ‘bind’; also absol. to cause constipation. Obs.
1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 158 The water that cooleth the yron, doeth detayne the bellie. Ibid. 158 b, It is byndyng, and therefore it doeth deteyne.
4. To keep from proceeding or going on; to keep waiting; to stop. (The ordinary current sense.)
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 577 For pity now she can no more detain him. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 99/2, I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do. a1665Sir K. Digby Private Mem. (1827) 89 Here Theagenes resolved to detain him self some time. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. Rom. ii. 12 The business which then detained him. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides 424, I was detained..partly by the rain, and partly by company that I liked very much. 1861D. Cook P. Foster's D. i, Don't let me detain you. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 113 We will not detain our readers. 1892Times (Weekly Ed.) 21 Oct. 2/4 The vessel..is detained in quarantine.
†5. To keep back or restrain from action; to hinder; to delay. Obs.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 54 But he resolved not any thing, deteined by his blinde commission, and the advise of some other Capteines. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii. (1676) 326/1 Modesty would detain them from doing amiss. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. 244 How long wilt thou the general joy detain: Starve, and defraud the People of thy Reign?
▪ II. † deˈtain, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. detain v.]
the action of detaining, or fact of being detained; detention.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. vi. 15 And gan enquire of him with mylder mood The certaine cause of Artegals detaine. |