Retract

To draw back to draw up or shorten as the cat can retract its claws to retract a muscle...

Retraction

The act of retracting or drawing back the state of being retracted as the retraction of a cats claws...

Retractation

The act of retracting what has been said recantation...

retraction

retraction : an act of taking back or withdrawing [ of a confession] [her of the defamatory statement] ...

Retractable

Capable of being retracted retractile...

Bidder

Bidder, a person who makes an offer at an auction, which he may retract before acceptance, although there may be a condition prohibiting it. See AUCTION....

Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law, signified an oath taken by a person accused of crime who had claimed sanctuary (see that tile) to forsake the realm for ever. It was abolished by 12 Jac. 1, c. 28.The oath of abjuration (introduced by 13 Wm. 3, c. 16, and altered by 6 Geo. 3, c. 53) had to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.), engaging to support her, and promising to disclose all treasons and traitorous conspiracies against her, Staunforde Pl. C. b. 2, c. 40. By 21 & 22 Vict. C. 48, one form of oath was substituted for the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. For this form another was substituted by...

Retractive

Serving to retract of the nature of a retraction...

Retractate

To retract to recant...

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