Retroact

re'troor ret'ro-akt, v. i. To act backward, in return or in opposition. —Retroaction, n. Action returned, or action backward; operation on something past or preceding. — Retroactive, -iv, a. Fitted or designed to retroact; affecting what is past; retrospective. — Retrocede, re'troor ret'rosed, v. t. To cede or grant back. — v. i. To go back. — Retroce ion, -sesh'un, n. Act of retroceding; To state of being retroceded or granted back. — Retroact rade, a. Moving or going backward; contrary;; eclining from abetter to a worse state. (Astron.) pay up Apparently moving backward, as a planet. — v. i. retire; To go or move backward.— Retro grad a'tion, n. Act of retrograding or moving backward. (Astron.) The apparent motion of the planets contrary to the order — of the signs, that is, from east to west. State of being state retrograded; a going backward.— Retrogre ion, w. any Act of going backward; retrogradation. — Retro-; sei gre ive, -siv, o. Going^ or moving backward. — not!