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Regressive   Listen
adjective
Regressive  adj.  
1.
Passing back; returning.
2.
Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
Regressive metamorphism.
(a)
(Biol.) See Retrogression.
(b)
(Physiol.) See Katabolism.





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"Regressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... the synthesis of the series on the side of the conditions—from that nearest to the given phenomenon up to the more remote—regressive; that which proceeds on the side of the conditioned, from the immediate consequence to the more remote, I shall call the progressive synthesis. The former proceeds in antecedentia, the latter in consequentia. The cosmological ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant


Words linked to "Regressive" :   retrograde, retrogressive, backward, returning, unmodernised, tax, reverting, unmodernized, taxation


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