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retained, ppl. a.|rɪˈteɪnd|
[f. retain v.]
1. Restrained; kept back or in check.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 32 b/2 When we desire to provoacke the retayned and kept backe menstruosityes. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 63 What astonishment was it to those, who had before seen her in her retained course of life. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. Wks. 1857 II. 479 Persons that..have not that holy, retained, bridled way of using their repast. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 186 With her eyes over-full of retained tears.
2. Kept on; preserved. retained object, an object of a passive verb; retained profit (see quot. 1974).
1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 204 Great eagerness was manifested to be nominated one of these retained scholars. 1875Whitney Life Lang. iv. 55 The alteration of the retained elements of words. 1934Webster, Retained object. 1941Foerster & Steadman Writing & Thinking (rev. ed.) xvi. 153 A verb in the passive voice is transitive only if it has a retained object. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts 504 Normal complements of passive-verb-form predicators are sometimes called ‘retained objects’. An example is the time of we weren't given time. 1973Country Life 29 Nov. (Suppl.) 9 (Advt.), Wanted for a retained client A period residence... Price is immaterial. 1974Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost and Managem. Accountants) 68 Retained profits, profits retained in the business, and not distributed to the owners/shareholders. 1977Cleethorpes News 6 May 32/6 There are unlikely to be any surprises in Grimsby Town's retained list, which is due out today. |