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10 استطرد ذ He desired, or sought, to drive away, expel, banish, remove, or put or place at a distance or away or far away. (KL.) ― -b2- استطرد لَهُ (S, L, Msb, in the K استطردهُ لَهُ,) denotes a kind of stratagem, (S, L,) or what is as though it were a kind of stratagem, (K,) meaning (assumed tropical:) 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. (Msb.) ― -b3- And hence, app., the phrase, وَقَعَ ذٰلِكَ عَلَى وَجْهِ الاِسْتِطْرَادِ (assumed tropical:) That occurred in the way of a digression, not being mentioned in its proper place. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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