Definition of Retrained

1. Verb. (past of retrain) ¹

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Definition of Retrained

1. retrain [v] - See also: retrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrained

retraction fibre
retraction of publication
retraction syndrome
retractions
retractive
retractives
retractor
retractors
retracts
retrad
retrahens aurem
retraict
retraicts
retrain
retrainable
retrained (current term)
retrainee
retrainees
retrainer
retrainers
retraining
retrains
retrait
retraite
retraites
retraits
retraitt
retraitts
retral
retrally

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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