Word Meanings - RETRACTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.

RETRACT
handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract
RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
RETRACTILE
CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
RETRACTIBLE
Retractable.
RETRACTIVE
Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.
RETRACTION
1. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws. 2. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. Other
RETRACTATION
The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
RECANTATION
The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction. The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
RETRACTATE
To retract; to recant.
RETRACTABLE
Capable of being retracted; retractile.
IRRETRACTILE
1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.