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retund, v. Now rare or Obs.|rɪˈtʌnd|
[ad. L. retund-ĕre, f. re- re- + tundĕre to beat, strike.]
1. trans. To weaken (some physical quality or agent); to diminish the strength or effect of.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxi. x. (1678) 469 Such..Medicins as are fit to draw out and retund the venom. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 38 Watry humidity doth much retund..the strength. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compil. xix. 790 It needs no other Medicin to be mixed with it to retund its ill quality. 1710Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 308 The Pectoral Decoction..retunds the Acrimony of the Blood. a1734North Examen i. ii. §85 To try if any Thing would retund the Efficacy of that mishapen Engine of Mischief.
2. To beat back, repress (malice, etc.).
1642Newcomen Craft Ch. Advers. (1643) 12 God could..retund even the Devills own malice. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) II. 499 Hence we see how we may retund the importunity of the Macedonians.
b. To put down or refute.
1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 41 Mentioned onely to retund a litle this mans insolent vauntings. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 627 This ignorant and conceited confidence of both may be retunded and confuted from hence. Ibid. 869 We have Sufficiently retunded the Force of that Objection against the Ingenerability of all Souls. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 6 Calumny which riseth after a man's death..needs most a friend to retund it.
3. To dull or blunt (the edge of a weapon).
1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 12 To quench and dissipate the force of any stroke that shall be dealt it, and retund the edge of any Weapon. 1724Warburton Tracts (1789) 9 Now,—was thy Sword employed,..in whose Quarrel was its Edge retunded? 1795Southey Joan of Arc vii. 594 How then might shield, or breast-plate, or close mail Retund its edge?
fig.1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. App. (1852) 171 None of all these things could retund the edge of his expectations to find the wreck.
4. To drive or force back.
1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. v. ix. 94 Jordan and Ouse two Rivers were retunded Whos waters som space stood on both parts sundred. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xxii. (1713) 158 Like the Beams of the Sun, that retunded from this Body are received by another, and nothing is lost. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §69 Vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light. |