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A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as, retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.

To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

Action returned, or action backward.

To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.

The state of being retroceded, or granted back.

gggh altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Copulating backward, or from behind.

A leading or bringing back.

Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

The act of retrograding, or moving backward.

Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. Chaucer.

The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.

Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. -- n. (Zoöl.)

Driving back; repelling.

Bent backward or downward. -- Re*trorse"ly, adv.

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.

Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope.

A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.