stretch out, hold out; put forward as a pretext
Latin word, found 115 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 1.270: religio vetuit, segeti praetendere saepem,
Vergil, Aeneid 3.692: Sicanio praetenta sinu iacet insula contra
Ovid, Remedia amoris 240: Praetendens culpae splendida verba tuae.
All forms of praetendo