Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To oppose; hold out in opposition.
- To pretend; allege; plead as an excuse; offer as the reason of anything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
- transitive verb obsolete To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
oppose ; to hold out in opposition. - verb obsolete To offer as the
reason for something; topretend .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin obtendere, obtentum, to stretch or place before or against; ob (see ob-) + tendere to stretch.
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Examples
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The nation is first, and the plea is accurst That fosters a bias; its claims to obtend.
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