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单词 retraict
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retraictn.

Forms: 1500s retraicte, 1500s–1600s 1900s– retraict.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French retraict, retraicte.
Etymology: < Middle French, French †retraict (masculine), †retraicte (feminine), variants of retrait , retraite retreat n. Compare earlier retreat n. and also retract n.
Obsolete.
1. Military. = retreat n. 5a.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal to retreat
retreat1483
retraict1538
retraite1825
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Canere receptui, to blowe the retraicte in battayle.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander i. xii. f. 21 When Eumenes had considered that he had wonne honour ynough in obtayning victory..he caused to sound the retraict.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiii. 500 Gracchus sounded the retraict, and caused his men to retire within the walles.
1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction vii. v. 313 See, how the Spirit of Detraction begins to shrinke and to sound a retraict.
2.
a. The action or an act of retreating (in various senses of retreat v.1).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating
recoilc1330
retreata1393
subtraction?a1425
back-drawing1535
retirement1536
retiring1548
retraict1550
recess1561
retire1570
retiral1611
subducing1633
retiration1637
withdrawment1640
retirance1662
retreating1664
retraction1684
retreatment1721
withdrawal1824
back-pedalling1950
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > a place of refuge
havenc1225
infleeinga1300
leinda1300
harbourc1300
reseta1325
harbouryc1325
refutec1350
asylec1384
receipta1393
refugec1405
port salut?1407
recept1423
porta1425
receptaclec1425
place (etc.) of refuge?a1439
retreat1481
port haven1509
stelling-place1513
refugie1515
retraict1550
safe haven1555
havening place1563
sanctuarya1568
safe harbour1569
sheepfold1579
subterfuge1593
arka1616
lopeholt1616
latebra1626
asylum1642
creep-hole1646
harbourage1651
reverticle1656
creeping-hole1665
a port in a (also the) storm1714
receptory1856
padded cell1876
funk-hole1900
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. iv. f. clxxix v Those amonge theyme that fledde awaye, through cause of the other vyctorie, had their retraicte moore easey.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 445 The Saxons..vsed them as receptacles, and places of secret retraict, for their wiues, children, and portable goodes.
1601 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. (new ed.) ii. x. 62 They were repulsed, and in their retraict [1596 retract]..one or two..of their captaines hurt.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 51 The Woods and places of fastnesse, whence they made eruptions and retraicts at pleasure.
b. A place of retreat.
ΚΠ
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. x. f. 98 It was a hard matter without some cautel and wyle to surprise such a people always liuing like sheepheardes, and hauing for their retraict places inaccessible and impregnable.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 23 Their chiefest strengths and retraicts are in the Ilands scituate on the south side of the entrance..of the said river.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) v. ii. 301 The aboad of a Deity, was like to be turn'd into a retraict for theeves.
c. Possibility of retreat. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating > possibility of
retraict1622
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 33 The Earle of Lincolne..seeing the businesse past Retraict, resolued to make on where the King was.
3. That which is rejected; refuse. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance > that which is rejected or refused > person that is rejected
offcasta1387
oversight1531
retraict1575
rejected1593
reject1917
unwanted1932
1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 95v I am..the reproch, retraict, and shame of men, and the scorne of the people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

retraictv.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: retraict n.; French retraict.
Etymology: Either < retraict n., or < Middle French, French †retraict, variant of retrait , past participle of retraire (see retreat v.1). Compare earlier retreat v.1, retract v.1
Obsolete.
intransitive. To retreat.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > retreat
withdraw1297
recoilc1330
faila1400
rere?a1400
give way1413
ruse?a1425
retreata1460
to leave place1487
wandis1487
settle1513
retire1533
retrace1539
dismarch1596
to come off1600
to fall back1602
retraicta1604
give grounda1616
recline1789
exfiltrate1980
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 92 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) A Priests sonne..in the beginning of the battaile..perswaded him to retraict; saying further, that there was no hope of good successe.
c1625 J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 32 They continued their approaches, vntil findeinge the ordinance to speake more loud and hottly than they expected..they presently retraicted, and..tooke their leaue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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