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RET'ROGRADE, a. [L. retrogradior; retro, backwards, and gradior, to go.]
RET'ROGRADE, v.i. [L. retrogradior; retro and gradior, to go.]
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. Tending or moving backward; having a
backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed
to progressive.
"Progressive and not retrograde."
Bacon.
It is most retrograde to our desire. Shak. Declining from a better to a worse state;
as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals,
etc.
Bacon. To go in a
retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a
planet.
Hence, to decline from a better to a worse
condition, as in morals or intelligence.
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