KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

DETAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenant.]

1. To keep back or from; to withhold; to keep what belongs to another. detain not the wages of the hireling.

2. To keep or restrain from proceeding, either going or coming; to stay or stop. We were detained by the rain.

Let us detain thee, till we have made ready a kid. Judges 13:15.

3. To hold in custody.

DETAINDER, noun A writ. [See Detinue.]

DETAINED, participle passive Withheld; kept back; prevented from going or coming; held; restrained.

DETAINER, noun

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.

DETAINING, participle present tense Withholding what belongs to another; holding back; restraining from going or coming; holding in custody.

DETAINMENT, noun The act of detaining; detention.