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Definition of Retained
1. Adjective. Continued in your keeping or use or memory. "In...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered"
Definition of Retained
1. Verb. (past of retain) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retained
1. retain [v] - See also: retain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retained
Literary usage of Retained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Others retained the root from which the head of the family derived his name, but
varying the other syllables (thus, the three sons of the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The Kentish form, of southern English seems to have retained specially archaic
features; five short sermons in it of the middle of the 13th century have ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Some of the recent prominent murder trials have hence afforded an interesting
spectacle of arrays of experts with conflicting opinions retained by the ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... of Lycia The Ne which owned the Egyptian Power, and consequently retained ...
ing retained it to his dyeing Day, alwaies preferring the Interest of his ..."
5. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"Professor Jackson retained by the British Government Professor Jackson, head of
the department of electrical engineering at the Institute, has been retained ..."
6. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"Jebb (1905) retained. Let me add that the poet ought to have written, though the
papyrus forbids me to say he did write : — в 315] ..."
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