To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire fromservice on a pension.
I made the signal for the gun and bomb boats to retire from action, and for the vessels to which they were attached to take them in tow.
At half past five, I made the signal for the gunboats to retire from action, and for the brigs and schooners to take them in tow.
I made the signal for the boats to retire from action, and for the brigs and schooners to take them in tow, and soon after hauled off with the Constitution to repair damages.
To step aside, to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company.
To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
I wish you to retire from business, and leave this place for any distant part of England; I wish you to change your name, and, in one word, I wish Captain Delmar should believe that you are dead.
She consulted with my grandmother, who approved of her intentions, and then it was made public that Mrs Keene intended to retire from business, and that the good-will was to be disposed of along with the stock.
Nevertheless they failed to take Cassel, the chief object of the campaign, and were obliged to retire from Hesse.
A few days later, on April 7, Bute announced that ill-health compelled him to retire from office.
He defeated Greene at Hobskirk hill on April 25, but was forced to retire from Camden.
But it was not correct to say, as many writers have done, that he found it necessary to retire from Dublin.
When that radical change was proposed, we find it resisted by a considerable minority, who felt themselves at length compelled to retire from an association, the proceedings of which they could no longer approve.
Some readers, not having maps before them, will better understand the nature of this retirement if I liken it to the case of a man wishing to retire from Reigate to London, and taking Dover and Canterbury in his way.
With these wishes, and this benediction, the commander-in-chief is about to retire from service.
Mr. Addington now resolved, as soon as the financial concerns of the year could be adjusted, to retire from office.
French troops should evacuate Paris; and that Paris should be garrisoned by the allied armies Thus deserted, Napoleon resolved to retire from France.
He recommended that a ministry should be formed unanimous in the rejection of Catholic emancipation; to forward which arrangement he professed his own willingness to retire from office.
I read, with extreme regret, the expressions of an inclination on your part to retire from Congress.
Randolph is, I believe, determined to retire from Congress, and it is strongly his wish, and that of all here, that you should take his place.
Retire from Silesia in the conquest of which I have expended so much blood and treasure!
To the English ministers, sent from Vienna to offer a million dollars to the Prussian king if he would consent to relinquish this enterprise and retire from Silesia, Frederick answered: “Retire from Silesia, and for money?
By this treaty, the Danes were to retire from Alfred’s dominions, provided that he would not interfere with their conquests in other parts of England.
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