detainv.

/dɪˈteɪn/

Forms: Middle English–1600s deteyn(e, 1500s–1600s detein(e, deteign(e, detayn(e, detaine, (1600s deten), 1600s– detain.

Etymology: Late Middle English deteine , deteyne , < Old French detenir (12th cent. in Littré), detener (Britton) = Provençal detener , Spanish detener , Catalan detenir , Italian ditenere < Romance type *dē-tenēre for Latin dētinēre , to hold off, keep back, detain, < de- prefix 1b + tenēre to hold. For the root-vowel compare contain, maintain, sustain, retain.

a. transitive. To keep in confinement or under restraint; to keep prisoner. spec. To place (a political offender) in confinement.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)]

at-hold?c1225

to hold inc1300

withholda1325

distrainc1340

restrain1397

stressa1425

detain1485

to lay fast1560

constrain1590

enstraiten1619

embinda1628

pin1738

coerce1780

deport1909

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > detain in custody

detain1485

restrain1491

hold1903

deport1909

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > detain in custody > a political offender

detain1918

1292 Britton i. v. §3 Ou si maliciousement le fet detener.]

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. gviij/2 The peres of fraunce beyng thus assyeged and deteyned.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. x A traytor..whiche is apprehended and deteigned in prisone for his offence.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 When King Richard the first was deteined prisoner.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lix. 279 He was detained in strict confinement.

1884 M. E. Braddon Flower & Weed 139 ‘Beg your pardon, sir,’ said the constable..‘I shall be obliged to detain you till this business is settled.’

1918 East India (Sedition Comm.): Rep. Comm. to investigate Conspiracies in India 86 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 9190) VIII. 423 Such men are the leaders and organizers of the movement. They are now detained or their arrest is intended under Regulation III of 1818.

1940 J. 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. passive. To be ‘holden’ or possessed with (infirmity, disease, etc.). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's 18 With this so grete A sykenes was he deteynyd.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Tiij^v To be deteigned with suche a spece of madnesse.

1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) C b A Maide of the City Corinthia..detained with sicknesse, dyed.

a. To keep back, withhold; esp. to keep back what is due or claimed. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > keep what is due to or desired by another

ofholdOE

withholdc1200

abstaina1387

keep?1463

to hold up?1499

refrain?1504

outhold1512

detainc1535

to keep back1535

subtracta1538

substract1542

to hold out1907

c1535 in J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1867) 1st Ser. II. 82 The said abbot hath detained and yet doth detain servants' wages.

1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother v. i. sig. I1 My sword forc'd from me too, and still detein'd.

1670 A. Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull 12 Apr. in Wks. (1875) I. 324 To call to account such persons as detained mony in their hands given charitably.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes v. 221 These Tithes..have been granted by the King..but afterwards by the instinct of the Devil many have detained them.

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 172 No longer then..Detain the Relicks of great Hector dead..restore the Slain.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 288 The interest of the sum fraudulently detained in the Exchequer by the Cabal.

†b. To keep (a person) from his right. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper for [verb (transitive)] > lose the right to > take a right away from > keep (a person) from his right

detain1583

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L5 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). Obsolete (except as associated with 4.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)]

holda855

haveeOE

witec1000

at-holdc1175

withholdc1200

keepc1400

reserve?a1439

retain1449

detain1541

to stick to ——1560

contain1600

to make good1606

preserve1617

inhold1726

to hang on to1873

1541 T. Wyatt Defence in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 187 That the defendante myght detayne vnto hym councell.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 65^v Some [glandules] are strewed as beddes vnto Veynes, and Arteries, to deteine them from hurt.

1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F1 To dedicate the same thing a Kirk, and yet deteene it a buriall.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 195 Rivers mentioned in the Scriptures, which to this day detayne their names.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 41 The inhabitants of Spaine are detained in superstition, by the vigilancy of the Inquisition.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 159 When we fix and detain them [sc. our eyes] too long upon the same object.

†b. To hold, hold down: transl. dētinēre of the Vulgate. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. i. 18 Those men that deteine the veritie of God in iniustice [1611 hold: Wycl., Tind., Cranm., Geneva, withhold: Rev. V. hold down: Gk. κατεχόντων].

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 100 That..they might learne not to detaine the trueth of God in unrighteousnes.

a1694 J. Tillotson 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > occupy militarily

seize1338

occupya1382

forestall?1571

detain1632

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. III. 103 A large and strong Fortresse..now detained by a Garison of Turkes.

1642 Lanc. 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. Obsolete (or merged in sense 4.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)]

exercisea1538

entertainc1540

replenish1548

rouse1583

catcha1586

amuse1586

detainc1595

attract1599

grope1602

concerna1616

take1634

stay1639

engage1642

meet1645

nudge1675

strike1697

hitcha1764

seize1772

interest1780

acuminate1806

arrest1835

grip1891

intrigue1894

grab1966

work1969

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiii. 75 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 95 No good on earth doth my desires detaine.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iii. 374 I..am mightely detained & allured with that grace and comelinesse.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vii. 148 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > constipation

stop1542

detain1580

obstipate1710

restringe1710

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > cause excretory disorder [verb (transitive)] > constipation

constipate1541

stop1542

inveterate1574

detain1580

bind1597

restringe1598

confine1870

1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 158 The water that cooleth the yron, doeth detayne the bellie.

1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 158^v It is bynding, and therefore it doeth deteyne.

4. To keep from proceeding or going on; to keep waiting; to stop. (The ordinary current sense.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > hinder or delay > by keeping from proceeding

detain1593

society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > detain (a reader)

stay1578

detain1891

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. E For pittie now she can no more detaine him.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 I shall detain you..no longer in the demonstration of what we should not doe.

a1665 K. Digby Private Mem. (1827) 89 Here Theagenes resolved to detain him self some time.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. ii. 12 The business which then detained him.

1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Sept. 25 I was detained..partly by the rain, and partly by company that I liked very much.

1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter i Don't let me detain you.

1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 113 We will not detain our readers.

1892 Times (Weekly ed.) 21 Oct. 2/4 The vessel..is detained in quarantine.

†5. To keep back or restrain from action; to hinder; to delay. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > hinder or delay

bestayc1330

tarry1340

delaya1393

to put aback1450

to pull backa1470

retard1490

tarde1524

retary1526

to throw back1562

forslow1570

backward1594

detain1600

to set back1600

slug1605

retardate1613

tardya1616

taigle?1635

backen1649

remore1652

remorate1657

to cast back1671

to hold up1887

to knock back1945

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 54 But he resolved not any thing, deteined by his blinde commission, and the advise of some other Capteines.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. iii. 616 Modesty would detaine them from doing amisse.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 8 How long wilt thou the general Joy detain; Starve, and defraud the People of thy Reign?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	detain
释义	† detainn. Etymology: < detain v. Obsolete. rare. the action of detaining, or fact of being detained; detention. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody arrestc1386 custodyc1503 detaininga1535 detention?1570 detainment1586 detain1596 detainer1640 detainal1806 pinch1900 deportation1909 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vi. sig. R2^v And gan enquire of him, with mylder mood, The certaine cause of Artegals detaine . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). detainv. /dɪˈteɪn/ Forms: Middle English–1600s deteyn(e, 1500s–1600s detein(e, deteign(e, detayn(e, detaine, (1600s deten), 1600s– detain. Etymology: Late Middle English deteine , deteyne , < Old French detenir (12th cent. in Littré), detener (Britton) = Provençal detener , Spanish detener , Catalan detenir , Italian ditenere < Romance type dē-tenēre for Latin dētinēre* , to hold off, keep back, detain, < de- prefix 1b + tenēre to hold. For the root-vowel compare contain, maintain, sustain, retain. 1. a. transitive. To keep in confinement or under restraint; to keep prisoner. spec. To place (a political offender) in confinement. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > deprive of liberty by restraint [verb (transitive)] at-hold?c1225 to hold inc1300 withholda1325 distrainc1340 restrain1397 stressa1425 detain1485 to lay fast1560 constrain1590 enstraiten1619 embinda1628 pin1738 coerce1780 deport1909 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > detain in custody detain1485 restrain1491 hold1903 deport1909 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > detain in custody > a political offender detain1918 1292 Britton i. v. §3 Ou si maliciousement le fet detener.] 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. gviij/2 The peres of fraunce beyng thus assyeged and deteyned. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. x A traytor..whiche is apprehended and deteigned in prisone for his offence. 1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 16 When King Richard the first was deteined prisoner. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lix. 279 He was detained in strict confinement. 1884 M. E. Braddon Flower & Weed 139 ‘Beg your pardon, sir,’ said the constable..‘I shall be obliged to detain you till this business is settled.’ 1918 East India (Sedition Comm.): Rep. Comm. to investigate Conspiracies in India 86 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 9190) VIII. 423 Such men are the leaders and organizers of the movement. They are now detained or their arrest is intended under Regulation III of 1818. 1940 J. 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. passive. To be ‘holden’ or possessed with (infirmity, disease, etc.). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's 18 With this so grete A sykenes was he deteynyd. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Tiij^v To be deteigned with suche a spece of madnesse. 1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) 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. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > keep what is due to or desired by another ofholdOE withholdc1200 abstaina1387 keep?1463 to hold up?1499 refrain?1504 outhold1512 detainc1535 to keep back1535 subtracta1538 substract1542 to hold out1907 c1535 in J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1867) 1st Ser. II. 82 The said abbot hath detained and yet doth detain servants' wages. 1637 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Elder Brother v. i. sig. I1 My sword forc'd from me too, and still detein'd. 1670 A. Marvell Let. to Mayor of Hull 12 Apr. in Wks. (1875) I. 324 To call to account such persons as detained mony in their hands given charitably. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes v. 221 These Tithes..have been granted by the King..but afterwards by the instinct of the Devil many have detained them. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 172 No longer then..Detain the Relicks of great Hector dead..restore the Slain. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 288 The interest of the sum fraudulently detained in the Exchequer by the Cabal. †b. To keep (a person) from his right. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper for [verb (transitive)] > lose the right to > take a right away from > keep (a person) from his right detain1583 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L5 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). Obsolete (except as associated with 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] holda855 haveeOE witec1000 at-holdc1175 withholdc1200 keepc1400 reserve?a1439 retain1449 detain1541 to stick to ——1560 contain1600 to make good1606 preserve1617 inhold1726 to hang on to1873 1541 T. Wyatt Defence in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 187 That the defendante myght detayne vnto hym councell. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 65^v Some [glandules] are strewed as beddes vnto Veynes, and Arteries, to deteine them from hurt. 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F1 To dedicate the same thing a Kirk, and yet deteene it a buriall. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 195 Rivers mentioned in the Scriptures, which to this day detayne their names. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 41 The inhabitants of Spaine are detained in superstition, by the vigilancy of the Inquisition. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 159 When we fix and detain them [sc. our eyes] too long upon the same object. †b. To hold, hold down: transl. dētinēre of the Vulgate. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. i. 18 Those men that deteine the veritie of God in iniustice [1611 hold: Wycl., Tind., Cranm., Geneva, withhold: Rev. V. hold down: Gk. κατεχόντων]. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 100 That..they might learne not to detaine the trueth of God in unrighteousnes. a1694 J. Tillotson 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > occupy militarily seize1338 occupya1382 forestall?1571 detain1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. III. 103 A large and strong Fortresse..now detained by a Garison of Turkes. 1642 Lanc. 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. Obsolete (or merged in sense 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > engage the attention [verb (transitive)] exercisea1538 entertainc1540 replenish1548 rouse1583 catcha1586 amuse1586 detainc1595 attract1599 grope1602 concerna1616 take1634 stay1639 engage1642 meet1645 nudge1675 strike1697 hitcha1764 seize1772 interest1780 acuminate1806 arrest1835 grip1891 intrigue1894 grab1966 work1969 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiii. 75 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 95 No good on earth doth my desires detaine. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. vi. iii. 374 I..am mightely detained & allured with that grace and comelinesse. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vii. 148 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > constipation stop1542 detain1580 obstipate1710 restringe1710 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > cause excretory disorder [verb (transitive)] > constipation constipate1541 stop1542 inveterate1574 detain1580 bind1597 restringe1598 confine1870 1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 158 The water that cooleth the yron, doeth detayne the bellie. 1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Dial. Yron in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 158^v It is bynding, and therefore it doeth deteyne. 4. To keep from proceeding or going on; to keep waiting; to stop. (The ordinary current sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > hinder or delay > by keeping from proceeding detain1593 society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > detain (a reader) stay1578 detain1891 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. E For pittie now she can no more detaine him. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 I shall detain you..no longer in the demonstration of what we should not doe. a1665 K. Digby Private Mem. (1827) 89 Here Theagenes resolved to detain him self some time. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. ii. 12 The business which then detained him. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Sept. 25 I was detained..partly by the rain, and partly by company that I liked very much. 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter i Don't let me detain you. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 113 We will not detain our readers. 1892 Times (Weekly ed.) 21 Oct. 2/4 The vessel..is detained in quarantine. †5. To keep back or restrain from action; to hinder; to delay. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > hinder or delay bestayc1330 tarry1340 delaya1393 to put aback1450 to pull backa1470 retard1490 tarde1524 retary1526 to throw back1562 forslow1570 backward1594 detain1600 to set back1600 slug1605 retardate1613 tardya1616 taigle?1635 backen1649 remore1652 remorate1657 to cast back1671 to hold up1887 to knock back1945 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 54 But he resolved not any thing, deteined by his blinde commission, and the advise of some other Capteines. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. iii. 616 Modesty would detaine them from doing amisse. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 8 How long wilt thou the general Joy detain; Starve, and defraud the People of thy Reign? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1596v.a1440
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† detainn.

detainv.