Verb

(en verb)

To keep in possession or use.

* Milton

Be obedient, and retain / Unalterably firm his love entire.

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

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To keep in one's pay or service.

* Addison

A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence.

To employ by paying a retainer.

To hold secure.

(obsolete) To restrain; to prevent.

(obsolete) To belong; to pertain.

* Boyle

A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.

Verb

(includ)

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.

To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.

The vacation package includes car rental.

Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.

up to and including page twenty-five

* Milton

The whole included race, his purposed prey.

* Shakespeare

The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

(obsolete) To enclose, confine.

*, New York, 2001, p.107:

I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.

* Shakespeare

Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.