استطرد

1.
He desired, or sought, to drive away, expel, banish, remove, or put or place at a distance or away or far away. (KL.)
2.
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.)
3.
And hence, apparently, 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.)

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