Retirement.
1840. The important matter of supper being in some sort concluded, preparations were made for “retiracy.”—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘A New Home,’ p. 71. (Italics in the original.)
1843. I’d a powerful sight sooner go into retiracy among the red, wild, Abor’rejines of our wooden country, nor consent to that bill.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 74.
1847. ‘Kit North’ in a state of ‘Retiracy.’—Knick. Mag., xxx. 450 (Nov.).
1851. If we didn’t elect him, I’d go into retiracy, and settle on the banks of the Salt River for life.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 341 (1860).
1862. If Hayti instead of Russia had been selected by a former Cabinet officer for his dishonorable retiracy, there would, I admit, be a sort of fitness of things.—Mr. Samuel S. Cox of Ohio, House of Repr., June 2: Cong. Globe, p. 2503/2.
