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reˈtrick, v. rare.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. Of a heavenly light: to cause (a beam) to shine again. Also in fig. phr. to retrick one's beams, to restore one's mood; to regain one's happiness, shrug off despair. So reˈtricked ppl. a.
Always with reference to Milton's line in Lycidas.
[1637Milton Lycidas in Poems (1968) 253 The day-star..tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.] 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound 28 The sun [shall] Disperse with retrickt beams the morning-frosts. 1863Trollope Small House at Allington (1864) II. iii. 28 We have retricked our beams in our own ways, and our lives have not been desolate. 1880― Duke's Children III. xxiv. 286 It is so that a man is stricken down... But it is given to him to retrick his beams. |