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استطرد

Root: طرد

Form: 10

Full Definition

استطردX He desired, or sought, to drive away, expel, banish, remove, or put or place at a distance or away or far away.
2 استطرد لَهُ (S, L, Msb, in the K استطردهُ لَهُ,) denotes a kind of stratagem, or what is as though it were a kind of stratagem, meaning He fled, or wheeled about widely, from him, i. e. from his adversary in fight, to turn again, by way of stratagem, and then returned upon him; as though he drew him from a position which he could not maintain to one which he could maintain.
3 And hence, app., the phrase, وَقَعَ ذٰلِكَ عَلَى وَجْهِ الاِسْتِطْرَادِ That occurred in the way of a digression, not being mentioned in its proper place.
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