1693 F. Manning tr. E. Fléchier Life Theodosius iii. xxix. 201 The Royal Treasury, instead of being filled with the Spoils of the Enemy, was enlarged by the retrenched Pensions of the Priests and Vestals [Fr. fust grossi des pensions retranchées aux Prêtres & aux Vestales].

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 76 The cock foregoes His wonted strut; and..seems to resent His alter'd gait and stateliness retrench'd.

1837 Niles' Weekly Reg. 1 July 236/1 To justify the restoration of the retrenched allowances in law.

1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 322 These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation?

1912 A. W. Tilby Eng. People Overseas IV. 242 There were insistent demands for increased expenditure in certain directions which could not be so easily dismissed as the plaint of a retrenched official.

1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) v. 311 Retrenched workers committed suicide.

1726 New Art War 192 A Fort or Redoubt is to be attacked as a Retrenched Camp.

1776 Lee in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 152 To prepare a post, or retrenched encampment,..opposite to the city.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 215 When a retrenched camp is to be formed under the walls of a fortified place, the works may be continuous.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 341/1 So that the capture of the lines shall not involve that of the retrenched post.

1915 J. C. Wise Long Arm of Lee II. xliv. 872 The 6th and 16th..leaped over the retrenched cavalier, and all down the line the dreadful work of the bayonet began.

1995 B. S. Trotter in L. Frey & M. Frey Treaties War Spanish Succession 141 Vauban strengthened the defense of the port and created a retrenched camp nearby.