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Detrect

Detrect \De*trect"\, v. t. [L. detrectare; de + tractare, intens. of trahere to draw.] To refuse; to decline. [Obs.] ``To detrect the battle.''
--Holinshed.

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detrect

vb. (context obsolete English) To refuse; to decline.