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▪ I. † deˈtract, n. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. dētractus a taking away, f. dētrahĕre: see detract v.]
Protraction, delay: cf. detract v. 6.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 353/1 Without delay and other detract of time.
▪ II. † deˈtract, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dētract-us, pa. pple. of dētrahĕre to draw off or away: see next.]
Extracted, taken out.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 171 The bonys Detracte of Duracyne.
▪ III. detract, v.|dɪˈtrækt|
Also 6 Sc. detrack.
[f. L. dētract- ppl. stem of dētrahĕre to draw off or away, take away, pull down, disparage, etc., f. de- I. 2 + trahĕre to draw. Cf. F. détracter (1530 in Hatz.-Darm.). In some senses app. directly representing L. dētractāre or dētrectāre, to decline, refuse, pull down violently, depreciate, freq. of dētrahĕre.
(The chronological order of the senses in English is not that of their original development; sense 3 being the earliest).]
I. To take away, take from, take reputation from.
1. trans. To take away, withdraw, subtract, deduct, abate:
a. some part from (rarely † to) a whole. (Now usually with a quantitative object, as much, something, etc.)
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 17 Some time addynge, somtyme detractinge and takinge away such thinges as semeth me necessary and superflue. 1571Digges Pantom. ii. xxiii. P ij b, Then 36 detracted from 48 leueth 12. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, v. iv. 142 Shall I..Detract so much from that prerogatiue, As to be call'd but Viceroy? 1622S. Ward Christ is All in All (1627) 25 All defects detract nothing to the happiness of him that [etc.]. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. iv. 326 To which there can be nothing added, nor detracted, without a blemish. a1696E. Scarburgh Euclid (1705) 207 Let the magnitude AB be equimultiple of CD, as the part detracted AE is of the part detracted CF. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxix, That first great grief which..detracts something from the buoyancy of the youngest life.
†b. something from a possessor, etc. Obs.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. ii. 97 They vilifie it and detract much authoritie from it. 1709Steele Tatler No. 13 ⁋1 A Lady takes all you detract from the rest of her Sex to be a Gift to her. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes i. 17 We rob him, whenever we detract from his Ministers any part of that Maintenance.
2. absol. or intr. To take away a portion. Usually to detract from: to take away from, diminish, lessen (a quality, value, authority, etc.).
a1592H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 65 To the testament of him that is dead, no man addeth or detracteth. 1699Burnet 39 Art. vi. (1700) 89 This may be urged to detract from its Authority. 1799Colebrooke in Life (1873) 446 The sight..detracted from the pleasure with which the landscape might be viewed. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 101 These circumstances detract from the weight of the decision. 1863D. G. Mitchell My Farm Of Edgewood 47 This alteration was of so old a date as not to detract from the venerable air of the house.
b. Connoting depreciation: cf. 3 c.
1593Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. viii. (1611) 100 To detract from the dignity thereof, were to iniury euen God himselfe. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1638) 212 Our late Historiographers..detracting from his worthy praises. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 5 Without detracting..from the real merit which abounds in the imperial law, I hope I may have leave to assert [etc.]. 1882B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. viii. 172 There were always some ready to detract from his fair fame.
†c. quasi-trans. (in loose const.) Obs. rare.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 452 In Revenge he would have Detracted, and lessen'd his Territories. 1785Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 417 To detract, add to, or alter them as you please.
3. trans. To take away from the reputation or estimation of, to disparage, depreciate, belittle, traduce, speak evil of. Now rare.
c1449Pecock Repr. iv. i. 417 Thei bacbiten and detracten the clergie. 1533Gau Richt Vay 91 Lat wsz forgiff thayme quhilk detrackis and spekis euil of wsz. 1603B. Jonson Sejanus i. i, To..detract His greatest actions. 1618Bolton Florus iv. ii. 265 Cato..detracted Pompey, and found fault with his actions. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry i. ii, Such as may Detract my actions and life hereafter. 1890[see detracted below]. 1891Smiles Jasmin vii. 93 Jasmin, like every person envied or perhaps detracted, had his hours of depression.
†b. absol. To speak disparagingly; to use or practise detraction. Obs.
1605Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows i. §7 So would there not be so many open mouthes to detract and slaunder. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 96 To vtter foule speeches, and to detract. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. Portrait, Adepts..who rail by precept, and detract by rule.
†c. intr. with from († of).
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon vii. 66 Dar'st thou detract and derogate from him? 1609Bible (Douay) Num. xiii. 33 They detracted from the Land, which they had viewed. 1683D. A. Art Converse 106 They detract generally of all Mankind.
† II. To draw away, off, out.
†4. trans. To draw away or aside, withdraw, divert (from an action or undertaking); refl. and intr. To withdraw, refrain. Obs.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. in Arb. Garner III. 110 My Lord Marshal..whom no danger detracted from doing his enterprise. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. C, There are too many Professours who detract themselves from undergoing lesser hazards for the Churches liberty. 1643Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 104 Long experience hath taught their General wisely to detract from fighting. 1802Hatred I. 211 [To] detract their attention from every thing foreign.
†5. To draw or pull off. Obs. rare.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 486 The skins of sheep..when the wool is detracted and pulled off from them.
†6. To draw out, lengthen in duration, protract, delay; usually in phr. to detract time. Obs.
1569Sir J. Hawkins in Hawkins' Voy. (1878) 73 To detract further time. 1579Churchyard in Arb. Garner IV. 206 The French Horsemen..offered a skirmish, to detract time. 1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 59 To linger and detract the war. 1605Play Stucley in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) 188 Some let or other to detract our haste. 1641Life Wolsey in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 132, I would not have you to detract the time, for he is very sick.
†b. absol. or intr. To delay. Obs.
1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 333 Willing the Prince to come thither, and doo him homage, which when the Prince detracted to doo, the king gathered an army to compell him thereto. a1592Greene James IV i. i, My zeal and ruth..Make me lament I did detract so long.
III. = detrect.
†7. trans. To draw back from, decline, refuse, shun; to give up, relinguish, abandon. Obs.
1572[see detracting vbl. n.] 1577Holinshed Chron. II. B b vij (N.), The English men..minding not to detract the battel, sharply encounter their enimies. 1595Locrine iii. iv, And if Thrasimachus detract the fight..Let him not boast that Brutus was his eam. 1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 634 Ionas detracting his Masters businesse. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 135 The winde comming faire, the captaine and the master would by no means detract the purpose of our discovery. 1606Holland Sueton. 25 Neither held he off, and detracted fight.
Hence deˈtracted ppl. a. (see the various senses above); also as n. a calumniated person.
1552Huloet, Detracted, detractus, rosus, suggillatus. 1890T. J. Duncan Social Departure 289 The detracted's enemies follow him. |