See retractate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for retractate meaning in English (3.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "",
"name": "lena"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "retractatus"
},
"expansion": "retractatus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "retractare"
},
"expansion": "retractare",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "retract"
},
"expansion": "retract",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin\n retractatus, past participle of retractare. See retract.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "retractates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "retractating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "retractated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "retractated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "retractate (third-person singular simple present retractates, present participle retractating, simple past and past participle retractated)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English undefined derivations",
"parents": [
"Undefined derivations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1615, John Ainsworth (Prisoner in Newgate.), The Trying Out of the Truth, page 112",
"text": "St. Augustines authoritie you let slip denying him a fit Maister to follow, you say he might retractate this, but neither you doe nor can show that he did retractate it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1623, Francis Bacon, Letter to Tobie Matthew",
"text": "It is true my labors are most set to have those works, which I formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens , which forsake me not.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1888, John Read Dore, editor, Old Bibles, page 370",
"text": "Saint Augustine was not afraid to exhort S. Hierome to a palinodia or recantation; the same S. Augustine was not ashamed to retractate, we might say revoke, many things that had passed him, and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1920, Helen Emma Wieand Cole, Deception in Plautus: A Study in the Technique of Roman Comedy, page 154",
"text": "For that purpose an examination of passages which are suspected of being \"retractated\" is necessary to determine what sort of passages suffer generally at the hands of the retractator.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Erik Stenius, Critical Essays - Volume 45, page 251",
"text": "in her retractated version Miss Anscombe rejects this kind of argument and, not paying regard to the logical difference between predicates and individuals just pointed to, infers that there 'is no ground for a distinction of types of object'.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To retract; to recant."
],
"id": "en-retractate-en-verb-wEZF6WJC",
"links": [
[
"retract",
"retract"
],
[
"recant",
"recant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To retract; to recant."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "retractate"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Latin",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "",
"name": "lena"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "retractatus"
},
"expansion": "retractatus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "retractare"
},
"expansion": "retractare",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "retract"
},
"expansion": "retract",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin\n retractatus, past participle of retractare. See retract.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "retractates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "retractating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "retractated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "retractated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "retractate (third-person singular simple present retractates, present participle retractating, simple past and past participle retractated)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English undefined derivations",
"English verbs",
"Requests for attention in Latin etymologies"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1615, John Ainsworth (Prisoner in Newgate.), The Trying Out of the Truth, page 112",
"text": "St. Augustines authoritie you let slip denying him a fit Maister to follow, you say he might retractate this, but neither you doe nor can show that he did retractate it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1623, Francis Bacon, Letter to Tobie Matthew",
"text": "It is true my labors are most set to have those works, which I formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens , which forsake me not.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1888, John Read Dore, editor, Old Bibles, page 370",
"text": "Saint Augustine was not afraid to exhort S. Hierome to a palinodia or recantation; the same S. Augustine was not ashamed to retractate, we might say revoke, many things that had passed him, and doth even glory that he seeth his infirmities.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1920, Helen Emma Wieand Cole, Deception in Plautus: A Study in the Technique of Roman Comedy, page 154",
"text": "For that purpose an examination of passages which are suspected of being \"retractated\" is necessary to determine what sort of passages suffer generally at the hands of the retractator.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Erik Stenius, Critical Essays - Volume 45, page 251",
"text": "in her retractated version Miss Anscombe rejects this kind of argument and, not paying regard to the logical difference between predicates and individuals just pointed to, infers that there 'is no ground for a distinction of types of object'.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To retract; to recant."
],
"links": [
[
"retract",
"retract"
],
[
"recant",
"recant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To retract; to recant."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "retractate"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.