▪ I. ˈretrogress, n. rare.
[ad. L. retrōgress-us: see next.]
A retrogression.
| 1814 Coleridge in Cottle Early Recoll. (1837) II. 164 After a sad retrogress of nearly twelve years. 1867 Spencer Princ. Biol. vi. iii. II. 410 Progress in bulk, complexity, or activity involves retrogress in fertility. |
▪ II. retrogress, v.
(ˈriːtrəʊ-, ˈrɛtrəʊgrɛs)
[f. L. retrōgress-, ppl. stem of retrōgradī to retrograde.]
intr. To move backwards; to go back.
| 1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 21 Night retrogressing from her daily tour. 1861 J. Nichol in Memoir (1896) 32, I am retrogressing into a period which we have closed. 1882 Farrar Early Chr. I. 439 This was the system..to which some of them were even tempted to apostatise or retrogress! |