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detrectare (detract-) [CL] 1 to reject, repudiate. b (w. inf.) to refuse. c (w. acc. & inf.) to forbid, grudge. ~avit, forsooc GlC D 71; dum tauri juga ~ant Gir. DK I 17; Albanus ‥ ~ando fugam ‥ celebravit exordium W. Newb. Serm. 887; [advocatus] pactiones violat, ~at transactiones P. Blois Ep. 26. 92B.  b confidentes in virtute sua, conditoris adjutorium quaerere ~ant Bede Hom. I 4. 20; officium ‥ suscipere vel susceptum digne gerere ~ant Id. Luke (xix 20–21) 565; quousque ‥ servitii debitum mihi ~as exhibere?  W. Jum. IV 14; s1109 [archiepiscopus Ebor’] suscepit a ministro, R. sc. Lundoniensi episcopo, quod ~averat suscipere a magistro [sc. archiepiscopo Cant’] W. Malm. GP III 120; ad regratiandum redire ~arunt Ad. Marsh Ep. 11; 1268 (v. Dalmaticus 2b); a1380 si ~averint comparere, pena ‥ bannicionis ‥ percellantur StatOx 88; s1314 articulos ‥ ad effectum ~avit perducere Wals. HA I 140.  c tantam naturalium bonorum gratiam in unum congeri livida natura ~ans ‥, niveo candori nevum adjecit Gir. TH III 49. 2 to disparage. 8‥ ~atur, is teled WW; hic tuum libitum adequat licito / sed morsu cubiti detractat tacito Walt. Wimb. Palpo 30. 3 a to tear off. b to tear down. c to maltreat. d to abuse or (?) detain wrongfully. a s1377 equo dejectus, amisit domini sui signum, vulgarium violencia collo suo ~atum Chr. Angl. 125.  b s1461 spoliabant omnia ‥ et, si quod tale fuerat [quod asportare non valerent], vel conculcabant pedibus vel ~abant manibus Reg. Whet. I 398.  c illos ‥ qui eam [matrem suam] inhoneste ~averant interfecit G. Herw. 327b.  d quanto quis diutius rem alienam invito domino ~are presumit, tanto ‥ Dominatorem omnium gravius offendit Gir. JS prol. p. 104. 4 to ‘draw’ (criminal). Cf. detrahere 2a. 1279 shope et redditus ‥ Abrahe ‥ Judei de Norwyco, qui pro blasphemia ‥ ~atus fuit et combustus ChartR 67 m. 4; Christiani apostate, sortilegii [sic] et hujusmodi detractare debent et comburi Fleta 54; 1292 pro seduccione domino regi facta ~etur et pro dictis homicidiis ‥ suspendatur Cl 119 m. 5d. (sched.).

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