King James Bible Dictionary

RETI'RE, verb intransitive

1. To withdraw; to retreat; to go from company or from a public place into privacy; as, to retire from the world; to retire from notice.

2. To retreat from action or danger; as, to retire from battle.

3. To withdraw from a public station. General Washington, in 1796, retired to private life.

4. To break up, as a company or assembly. The company retired at eleven o'clock.

5. To depart or withdraw for safety or for pleasure. Men retire from the town in summer for health and pleasure. But in South Carolina, the planters retire from their estates to Charleston, or to an isle near the town.

6. To recede; to fall back. The shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.

RETI'RE, verb transitive To withdraw; to take away.

He retired himself, his wife and children into a forest.

As when the sun is present all the year, and never doth retire his golden ray.

[This transitive use of retire is now obsolete.]

RETI'RE, noun

1. Retreat; recession; a withdrawing. obsolete

2. Retirement; place of privacy. obsolete

RETI'RED, adjective

1. Secluded from much society or from public notice; private. He lives a retired life; he has a retired situation.

2. Secret; private; as retired speculations.

3. Withdrawn.

RETI'REDLY, adverb In solitude or privacy.

RETI'REDNESS, noun A state of retirement; solitude; privacy or secrecy.

RETI'REMENT, noun

1. The act of withdrawing from company or from public notice or station.

2. The state of being withdrawn; as the retirement of the mind from the senses.

3. Private abode; habitation secluded from much society or from public life.

Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.

Retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

4. Private way of life.

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, progressive virtue and approving heaven.