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Retrograde   /rˈɛtrəgrˌeɪd/   Listen
Retrograde

verb
(past & past part. retrograded; pres. part. retrograding)
1.
Move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies.
2.
Move in a direction contrary to the usual one.
3.
Move back.  Synonym: retreat.
4.
Go back over.  Synonyms: hash over, rehash.
5.
Get worse or fall back to a previous condition.  Synonyms: regress, retrogress.  Antonym: progress.
adjective
1.
Moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth.  Antonym: direct.
2.
Of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma.  Antonym: anterograde.
3.
Going from better to worse.  Synonym: retrogressive.
4.
Moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction.  Synonym: retral.



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"Retrograde" Quotes from Famous Books



... I will not close this lengthened answer, without suggesting a suspicion, that those who have taken the notion that the Act of 1862 was a retrograde step, have done so without comparing for ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... islands there is no native province or settlement which resists conversion or does not desire it. But, as above stated, baptism has been postponed in some districts, for lack of workers to remain with the people, in order that they may not retrograde and return to their idolatries. In this work, the best that is possible is done, for the mission-fields are very large and extensive. In many districts the religious make use, in their visitas, of certain ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair
... remains of Aztec theistic influence, and the superstitions of both systems hold the ignorant peasantry of Mexico in enduring thrall. Much of beauty and pathetic quaintness there is in this strong religious sentiment, which no thinking observer will deride; much of retrograde ignorance, which he ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
... Why judge of all women from Ariadne alone? The very struggle of women for education and sexual equality, which I look upon as a struggle for justice, precludes any hypothesis of a retrograde movement." ...
— The Darling and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... the system of political wisdom stereotyped, like Mr. Cobbett's Gold against Paper, so as to admit of no farther alterations or improvements, or correction of errors of the press? When did the experience of mankind become stationary or retrograde, so that we must act from the obsolete inferences of past periods, not from the living impulse of existing circumstances, and the consolidated force of the knowledge and reflection of ages up to the present ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt


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