单词 | back-cast |
释义 | back-castadj. Cast or thrown backwards. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [adjective] > thrown > backwards back-casta1586 back-throwna1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xii. sig. Pp4 With manie a backe-cast looke. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. App. lxxxviii Back-cast tayls [of comets] turn'd to our Evening-eye. 1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends li. 3 Which to her back-cast thoughts could bring The scenes of other days. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.a1586 |
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