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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
REFRA'IN, v.t. [L. refaeno; re and fraeno, to curb; fraenum, a rein. See Rein.]
REFRA'IN, v.i. To forbear; to abstain; to keep one's self from action or interference.
REFRA'IN, n. The burden of a song; a kind of musical repetition.
1913 Definition
To hold back; to restrain; to keep within
prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
His reson refraineth not his foul delight or talent. Chaucer. Refrain thy foot from their path. Prov. i. 15. To abstain from
[Obs.]
Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink. Sir T. Browne. To keep one's self
from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to
abstain.
Refrain from these men, and let them alone. Acts v. 38. They refrained therefrom [eating flesh] some time after. Sir T. Browne. Syn. -- To hold back; forbear; abstain; withhold. The burden of a song; a phrase or verse
which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions
of a poetic composition.
We hear the wild refrain. Whittier. | ||||||||
Noah Says...
The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
