Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To keep back or from; to withhold.
2. To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.
3. To hold or keep in custody.
Withheld; kept back; prevented from going or coming; held; restrained.
1. One who withholds what belongs to another; one who detains, stops or prevents from going.
2. In law, a holding or keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is anothers, though the original taking may be lawful.
1. One who detains.
2. The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law.
3. A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
Withholding what belongs to another; holding back; restraining from going or coming; holding in custody.
Retention Roget’s Thesaurus §781
N. retention, retaining, keep, detention, # custody, tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum, bond, clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice, paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif, bird in hand, captive
V. retain, keep, hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground, clinch, clench, clutch, grasp, gripe, hug, have a firm hold of, secure, withhold, detain, hold back, keep back, keep close, husband, reserve, have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock, entail, tie up, settle
Adj. retaining, retentive, tenacious, unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated, incommunicable, inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement
Phr. uti possidetis
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
5 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “detain”
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for the dead detain it not.