Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To oppose; hold out in opposition.
  • To pretend; allege; plead as an excuse; offer as the reason of anything.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
  • transitive verb obsolete To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
  • verb obsolete To offer as the reason for something; to pretend.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin obtendere, obtentum, to stretch or place before or against; ob (see ob-) + tendere to stretch.

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Examples

  • The nation is first, and the plea is accurst That fosters a bias; its claims to obtend.

    Canadian Assimilation 1913

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