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retrograde

retrograde [CL retrogradus+-e], backwards, in reverse order. b (astr.) in retrograde fashion. post multiplicacionem autem pro unaquaque minutiarum in linearum media jacencium x sibi consimiles de arcu in arcum ~e transferes Thurkill Abac. f. 63; quem [psalmum] a fine nescio quo prestigio ~e ducens W. Malm. GP IV 156; ab aliis ‥ ~e trahentibus ‥ extrahuntur Gir. TH I 25 p. 58; sic quidem et ~e cum aliis semivocalibus coordinaciones facit xl Ps.-Gros. Gram. 28; ordinem vero valet quod habeant continuum et directum, ut memoria possit de facili omnes locis inscriptas ymagines directe vel ~e faciliter invenire Bradw. AM 37.  b nec movetur motu proprio, nisi processive, cum ceteri moveantur quandoque ~e Gros. Hexaem. V 21 p. 180; planeta progrediens regiratur ~e R. Bury Phil. prol. 8 p. 5.

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