Retractate

Quick meaning: Retractate is a verb meaning (obsolete) To retract; to recant.

Meaning

(obsolete) To retract; to recant.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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'.

Word Forms

• retractates
• retractating
• retractated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include retract, withdraw, recall, swallow, recule, retrate.

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