Meaning of retractate | Babel Free

Definitions

To retract; to recant.

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'.”

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