Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To refuse; decline.
  • To refuse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To refuse; to decline.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To refuse; to decline.

Etymologies

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Latin detrectare; de + tractare, intensitive of trahere to draw.

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