He needed to detrude his friend to keep him from fighting back. From LearnThat.org.
Saturn, will go near to detrude him out of his sphere, and with the. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Grief-stricken. detrude v. To push down forcibly. discontinuance n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Aut tu, magne pater divum, miserere, tuoque Invisum hoc detrude caput sub I'artara telo. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Honorable James Fox] Reference
If the spirit of animation was always necessarily penetrable, it could not influence or be influenced by the solidity of common matter; they would exist together, but could not detrude each other from the part of space, where they exist; that is, they could not communicate motion to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
And I conceive it is as little disrespectful to Lord Bacon to prefer the Classics in this point of view to the sciences which have grown out of his philosophy as it would be disrespectful to St. Thomas in the middle ages to have hindered the study of the Summa from doing prejudice to the Faculty of Arts. Accordingly, I anticipate that, as in the middle ages both the teaching and the government of the University remained in the Faculty of Arts. in spite of the genius which created or illustrated Theology and Law, so now too, whatever be the splendour of the modern philosophy, the marvellousness of its disclosures, the utility of its acquisitions, and the talent of its masters, still it will not avail in the event, to detrude classical literature and the studies connected with it from the place which they have held in all ages in education. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
Jupiter, reckoning himself to be nothing indebted unto Saturn, will go near to detrude him out of his sphere, and with the Homeric chain will be like to hang up the intelligences, gods, heavens, demons, heroes, devils, earth and sea, together with the other elements. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
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