Scholastic retiary versatility of logic.
Coleridge.
Ret"i*cence (?), n. [L. reticentia: cf. F. réticence.] 1. The quality
or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding
one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested;
uncommunicativeness.
Such fine reserve and noble reticence.
Tennyson.
2. (Rhet.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he
makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Ret"i*cen*cy (?), n. Reticence.
Ret"i*cent (?), a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence;
re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.] Inclined to keep silent;
reserved; uncommunicative.
Ret"i*cle (?), n. [See Reticule.] 1. A small net.