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retrogradi

retrogradi [CL] 1 to retreat. b (pass. in middle sense) to go back, return. 1573 seipsum retraxit retrorsum et fugiit quousque in ~iendo versus inclausuram ‥ ultra quam ‥ ulterius fugere non potuit Pat 1061 m. 33.  b cum depellantur qui nollent retrogradantur Epigr. Misc. 158; virtute nostri primi menstrui clari ‥ in quo corpora nostra patiuntur eclipsin et a suis duris et siccis compactionibus subtiliantur et in suam primam materiam ~iuntur Ripley Axiom. 112. 2 to turn around or backwards. 1311 ~iendo posuit anum suum ad faciem imaginis crucifixi Ann. Lond. 186.

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