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retrograding


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Retrograde  \Re"tro*grade\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Retrograded};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Retrograding}.]  [L.  retrogradare  retrogradi: 
  cf  F.  r['e]trograder.] 
  1.  To  go  in  a  retrograde  direction;  to  move  or  appear  to 
  move  backward,  as  a  planet. 
 
  2.  Hence  to  decline  from  a  better  to  a  worse  condition,  as 
  in  morals  or  intelligence. 




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