retrograde

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In fact, six of the planets in his chart were retrograde which is a very unusual occurrence.

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  1. adjective Moving or tending backward.
  2. adjective Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.
  3. adjective Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.
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  • Indeed, this whole Mercury retrograde is focused on the topic of owning what is our own and sharing what you have to share. —  Chronogram Articles and Blogs
  • Further, magnetic navigation allows going back to less invasive approaches for catheter ablation as the retrograde transaortic approach for WPW and even for left sided atrial arrhythmias. —  Scientific Blogging
  • Whether Father Knows Best fills you with a cocoa-toasty nostalgic glow or strikes you as hopelessly retrograde, you have to give —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • They meet for potluck dinners, movie and game nights and "community full moon circles" during which they sing, read poems and share thoughts on topics like "Mercury in retrograde - how is it affecting our communication?" —  ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS
  • This would explain how it got such a bizarre backward, or retrograde, and tilted orbit. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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  1. Middle English, from Latin retrōgradus, from retrōgradī, to go back : retrō-, retro- + -gradus, walking (from gradī, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Old French retrograder, recoil, French rétrograder = Provencal Spanish Portuguese retrogradar = Italian retrogradare, from Late Latin retrogradare, later form of Latin retrogradi, go backward, from retro, backward, + gradi, go: see grade.
  2. from Middle English retrograd, from Old French retrograde, French rétrograde = Spanish Portuguese Italian retrogrado, from Latin retrogradus, going backward (used of a planet), from retrogradi, go backward, retrograde: see retrograde, v.
 

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