LekhoriLekhoriTo avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
[T]hey began to finde fault with Poeſie, […] ſaying, that metaphors æmigmaticall, and covert words, yea and the ambiguities which Poetry uſeth, were but ſhifts, retracts, and evaſions to hide and cover all, whenſoever the events fell not out accordingly.
A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
From Late Middle English retracten, retract (“to absorb, draw in”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back;...
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Fill'd with the Satisfaction of their own diſcerning Faculties, they [natural history writers] paſs Judgment at firſt ſight; write on, and are above being ever brought to retract it.
Theſe Græcians alſo that made the retract, aduiſed Darius [III] to retire his Armie into the plaine of Meſopotamia, to the end that Alexander being entred into thoſe large fields and great Champions, he might haue inuironed the Macedonians on all ſides with his multitude; […]
The target of a retraction.