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Definition of Retrained
1. retrain [v] - See also: retrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrained
Literary usage of Retrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"In making the foregoing report, we have carefully retrained from obtruding any
theories of our own. We have simply confined ourselves to the facts as they ..."
2. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... gave way to his religious zeal, which rofe to fuch a height, that he returned
in hafte to Rome, and was with difficulty retrained from defending ..."
3. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the (1793)
"... he retrained many things which the fire of youth had made him utter precipitately ;
and when his ..."
4. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1759)
"... we ar« content to receive it ia a more retrained acceptation, then it wiil be
no more than a continuance of the old company, or at moft a revival (D). ..."
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