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