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Definition of Retrains
1. retrain [v] - See also: retrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrains
Literary usage of Retrains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1790)
"ET PER ORIAM ruled to be no pica: for 3. Term Rep. although the 31..£//«;. c. 5.
(a) retrains common informers to juj. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1800)
"19. which retrains the convocation from making or putting in execution any canons
repugnant to the king's prerogative, or the laws, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical edited by Samuel Johnson (1779)
"... retrains, Where Avarice or where Ambition reigns. ... and from truth
retrains *; ,0- Then racks and pillories, and bonds and bars, Then ruin and ..."
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