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Show R'E/ R\E % Place of fecurity This place our dungeon, not our fafe r‘clreat Milton iy, Beyond his potent dm That pieafing fhade they fought, a foft rerrea %4 S " From fudden April thowers, a fhelter from tllu)e l:gut ryden b There is no fuch way to give defenc to abfui as to guard them round with legion Goftrines f obfcure and undefined words ; whicli yet mak S of robbers, tha Locke thefe retreats more like the den the fortrefles of fair warriors .. A& of retiring before a fuperiour force . Retreat is lefs than flight " Honourable retreats are no ways inferior to brav "Ucharges; as havin lefsfl of fortune more of difBacon ‘cipline, and as much eof valour Unmov' With dread of death to flight ot foul retreat, Milton No thought of flight Milton None of retreat "eiyy RETREA'T. @. 2. [from the noun. %, Togoto a private abode W Others more mil Sna Retreated in a filent valley, fin Their own heroick deeds Mltc_n : To take fhelter; to go to a place of fe *curity "l To retire from a fuperiour enemy . 'To go back out of the former place The rapid currents driv e Towards the retreating fea their furious tide, Mi/ton My fubject does not oblige me to look .aféez' th | water, or point forth the place whereunto it is no Woodwward . retreated Having taken her by the hand,' he retreate with his eye fixed upon her. Zrbuthnot and Pope \ETREA'TED. part. adj. [from retrear. "Retired ; gone to privacy ‘Others more mil ! Retreated in a filent valley, fing @ RETRE'NCH w. a Miltor [retrancher French. . To cut off5 to pare away Denbam Nothing can be added to the wit of Ovid's Metamorphofes; but many things ought to have bee "retrenched Dryden We ought to retrench thofe fuperflious expence to qualify ourfelves for the exercife of charity Aterbury . To confine I fom Improper reigns the ar for a powe an obedience that is unlimited; and in others, ar for retrenching within the narrowzft bounds, th .authority of the princes, and the allegiance of th {ubject To ReTrE'NcH Addifen's Freebolder @. 7 'To live with lef Mmagnificence or expence CanI retrench 2 yes, mighty well Shrink back to my paternal cell A little houfe, with trees a-row And, like its mafter, very low Retre‘NcuMENT 2. / P.'I[)C [retranchement "French ; from retrench. Dyryden's Dedication to Virgil The want of vowels in our language has bee the general complaint of our politeft authors, wh neverthelef hav mad thef retrenchments aAn confequently encreafed our former fearcity. Addifon T'would rather be an advocate for the retrenchmenty than the encieafe of this charity. Arerbury 2. Fortification %o RE'TRIBUTE. w. a. [retrituo, Lat t z. Contrary; oppofite Your inten In going back to fchool to Wittenberg 1t is moft retrograde to our defire Shak:fpearz Both the willand power to ferve him are his upo man fcores that w are unabl to retrilute unlefs we do reftore; and all the ‘duties w ca pay our Maker are lefs properly requitals tha reftitutions Bayle In the ftate of nature, a man comes by no arbit ar power to ufe a criminal, but only to ret ibute 6 him, fo far as calm reafon and confcience dic ate what is proportionate to his tranfgreflion Locke 3. In aftronomy, planets are rerrograde when, by their proper motion in the zodiack Nought feeking but the praife of men, here fin Fit retribution, empty as their deeds Milton There is no nation, though plunged into neve fuch grofs idolatry, but has fome awful fenfe of deity, and'a perfuafion of a ftate of retribution t men after this life South It is a ftrong. argument for a ftate of retributio hereafter, that in this worl very often unfortunate {perous an virtuous perfons ar vicious perfons proAddifor's Speiator ReTr1"BUTORY. ] adj. [from retribute. Rerri'BuTIvE Repaying; makin repayment Something ftrangely retributive is working Clariffa RETRIE'VABLE. adj. [from rerrieve. That may be retrieved Zo RETRIE'VE. . a. ' [retrouver, Bri to reftore By this conduét we may retrieve the public ceedit of religion, reform the example of the age and leffen the danger we complain of Rogers 2. To repair O reafon ! once again to thee I cal Accept my forrow, and retrieve my fall Prior 3. To regain Wit Jate repentance now they would retriev The bodies they forfook, and wifh to live. Dryden Philomela's liberty retricw'd Cheers her fad foul Philips 4. To recall; to bring back If one, like the old Latin poets, came amon them, it would be a means to retricve them fro their cold trivial conceits, to an imitation of thei predeceflors Berkeley to Pope Rerroa'cTion. 2./. A&ion backward Rertroce'ssion. #. /o [rerroceffam, Lat. Thre act of going back ReTrocorura'rion. #./. [retro and copulation.] Poftcoition the natur of this pofition ReTrroGRADA'TION. #. / tion, Fr. from retrograde. gqing backward ther en Brozwn [retrograda‘L'he a& o As for the revolutions, ftations, and retrogradations of the planets, obferved conftantly in mof certain periods of time, fufficiently demonfirates that their mations are governed by counfel Ray RE"TROGRADE. 4. [retrograde retro and gradior, Latin. 1. Going backward Fr Princes, ifthéy ufe ambitious men, thould handl it fo, as they be ftill progreflive, and not retrograde Bacon backward an con firft: but this retrogradation is only apparent and occafioned by the obferver' eye being placed on the earth; for to a eye at the fun, the planet will appea always dire€t and never either ftation ary or retrograde The king thought he had not remunerated hi people fufficiently with good laws, which evermor was his retribution for treafure. Bacon's Henry V1 In good offices and due retributions, we may no be pinching and niggardly: it argues an ignobl mind, where we have wronged to higgle and dodg in the amends Hall All who have their reward on earth, the fruit Of painful fuperftition, and blind zeal they mov trary to the fucceflion of the figns; a from the fecond degree of Aries to th RE‘rRIZUTER #. /. [from retribate. One that makes retribution ReTrIBU'TION #. [ [retribution, Fr from retribute. Repayment; retur accommodated to the a&tion fueth a neceflity of retrocopulation I had ftndied Virgil's defign, his judicious management of the figures, the fober retrenchment of his fenfe, which always leaves fomewhat t gratify our imagination, on which it may enlarg f ROEH To pay back make repayment of Fro I. The a& of lopping away at pleafure retribuer, French. 1. To recover The pruner's hand muft quenc "Thy heat, and thy exub'rant parts retrench Thei wand'rin Harris courfe no then hid high, now low Progreflive, retrograde, or ftanding ill In fix thou feeft Miltor's Paradife Lof Two geomantick figures were difplay'd 7 One when direét, and cne when vctrogrades Dryden RE‘TROGRADE French @. a [retrograder rezro and gradior, Latin. T go backward The race and period of all things here is t turn things more pneumatical and rare, and no to retrograde from pneumatical to that which i denfe Bacon RETROGRE SSION. 7./. [retro and grefus Lat.] The a& of going backwards The account, eftablithed upon the rife and de fcent of the ftars, can be no reafonable rule unt diftant nations, and by reafon of their retrogreffion but temporary unto any one Brown RerroMI'NGENCY 2. / [retro an mingo, Latin. The quality of ftalin backwards The laft foundation was retromingency, or piffin backwards ; for men obferving both foxes to urin backwards, or averfly between their legs, the might conceive there were-feminine parts in both Brown's Pulgar Errours RETROMI'NGENT. adj. [retro and mingens, Latin. Staling backward By reafon of the backward pofition of the feminine parts of quadrupeds, they can hardly admi the fubftitution of mafculine generations, except i be in retromingents Browwz RE‘TROSPECT. #. / [retro and Jpecia Lat.] Lock thrown upon things behin or things paft As you arraign his majefty by retrofpcét, fo yo condemn his government by fecond fight Addifon's Frecholder Rerrosrr'cTrON. 2./ [from retroffed?. A& or faculty of looking backwards Can'ft thou take delight in viewin This poor ifle's approaching ruin When thy retrofpetion vaf Sees the glorious ages paft Happy nation were we blind Or had only eyes behind RETROSPE'CTIVE. 24/ [from res Looking backwards In vain the grave; with retrs Would from th® apparent what conclud he why To RETU'ND. v. a. [retands, Latin. }‘:]::' blunt ; to turn T Covered with fkin and hair keep s it warm bein naturally a ver an alf to c an diffipate the force of any flroke that fhall be dea it, and rezund the edge of any weapon Ray 79 RETURN «. 2. [retourner, Frcnci\'. 1. To come again to the fame place Whof rolleth a ftone, it will retu |