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''Often followed by'' from: to back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(RQ:Temple History of England)
To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to back.
Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
(RQ:Shakespeare Kyd Edward 3)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Drayton et al Oldcastle)
(RQ:Milton Comus)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:More Apocalypsis)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
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(RQ:Allingham China Governess)
(quote-web)
(RQ:Temple Miscellanea) by the order of Feet vvhich makes a great Facility of Tracing one VVord after another, by knovving vvhat ſort of Foot or Quantity, muſt neceſſarily have preceded or follovved the VVords vve retain and deſire to make up.
(RQ:Dryden Pastorals)
(RQ:Swift Polite Conversation)
(quote-book)
To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
(RQ:Book of Common Prayer)
(RQ:Drayton Poems)
(quote-book). The Sixth Edition,(nb...). Chapter X.|title=The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D.(nb...)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=(...) Roger Norton, for (w),(nb...)|year=1677|section=book III|page=645|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Y9RxSbSp0gC&pg=PA645|oclc=228727159|passage=Thou tookeſt this liberty, to have ''other Gods beſides the Lord thy God, viz.'' thy ''Baalims'' and ''Demon-gods'' of other Nations about thee; and yet hopedſt that ''Jehovah'' the God of Heaven, thy only Sovereign God, vvould not be offended thereat, ſince thou retainedſt him ſtill in chief place and honour vvith thee.
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi) but still to this day are retained the massive walls, and barred windows, and spacious courts, in which at that time they protected their rude retainers.
(RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd)
To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
(RQ:Addison Italy)''. (..) It is in the Poſſeſſion of a ''Benedictin'' Convent, vvhich raiſes a conſiderable Revenue out of the Devotion that is paid to it, and has novv retain'd the learnedſt Father of their Order to vvrite in its Defence.
To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a (l); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
(RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers)
To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
(RQ:Hume History)
To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
To keep (someone) in custody; to prevent (someone) from leaving.
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(RQ:Tyndale NT)
(RQ:Hall Meditations and Vowes)
(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan)
To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
(RQ:Boyle Works)
To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan) Fourthly, and laſtly, ''Patience to heare; diligent attention in hearing; and memory to retain, digeſt and apply vvhat he hath heard''.
(RQ:Gray Poems)
(RQ:Cowper Task)
Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
(RQ:Marston Antonio's Revenge)
To be a dependent or follower to someone.
(RQ:Erasmus Newe Testamente)
(RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)|page=42|passage=And therefore hereto he inveigleth, not only the Sadduces and ſuch as retaine unto the Church of God, but is alſo content that (w) (w) or any of the heathen ſhould hold the ſame.
To continue, to remain.
(RQ:Donne Poems)
An act of holding or keeping something; a possession, a retention.
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