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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a muscle which draws or tends to draw the human ear backward; one or two fleshy slips arising from the mastoid and inserted into the auricle: the opposite of
attrahens : more fully called retrahens aurem, retrahens auris, or retrahens auriculam. See cut undermuscle .
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Examples
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Que sequitur retrahens quicquid fuerit duplicatum.]
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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In the following lines he describes the hammer of the auctioneer with a mock sublimity which turns Horace into Virgil: ” 'Jam-jamque cadit, celerique recursu Erigitur, lapsum retrahens, perque aera nutat.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Semper in antiquum retrahens iter omnia fecura Seclorum ferie longa, iftas denique fignant Interualla faces} fimilis quoque lux habet om - neis,
Arati Solensis Phaenomena et Diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita Buhle, Johann Gottlieb, 1763-1821, ed 1793
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