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RETROFLEXION n.
The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.
RETROFRACT; RETROFRACTED a.
Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.
RETROGENERATIVE a.
Begetting young by retrocopulation.
RETROGRADATION n. 2 definitions
The act of retrograding, or moving backward.
RETROGRADE a. 5 definitions
to west, as a planet. Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. Chaucer.
RETROGRADINGLY adv.
By retrograding; so as to retrograde.
RETROGRESS n.
Retrogression. [R.] H. Spenser.
RETROGRESSION n. 2 definitions
The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
RETROGRESSIVE a. 2 definitions
Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
RETROGRESSIVELY adv.
In a retrogressive manner.
RETROMINGENCY n.
The quality or state of being retromingent. Sir T. Browne.
RETROMINGENT a. 2 definitions
Organized so as to discharge the urine backward. -- n. (Zoöl.)
RETROPULSIVE a.
Driving back; repelling.
RETRORSE a.
Bent backward or downward. -- Re*trorse"ly, adv.
RETROSPECT v. 2 definitions
To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.
RETROSPECTION n.
The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
RETROSPECTIVE a. 2 definitions
Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view. The sage, with retrospective eye. Pope.
RETROSPECTIVELY adv.
By way of retrospect.
RETROUSSE a.
Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.
RETROVACCINATION n.
The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.
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