单词 | retrocede |
释义 | retrocedev. 1. intransitive. To go back; to retreat; to recede. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] reversec1450 recoil1483 back1486 regressa1525 retire1542 flinch1578 retrograde1613 recur1616 retrocede1638 ravel1656 backen1748 regrede1800 regrade1811 retrogress1812 1638 A. Baker in Downside Rev. (1986) Jan. 39 They uppon such accidents verie unworthilie fall of or retrocede. 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. v. lxxxii. f. 117v One ran t' his Cave, th' other trembling hid, And went home glad, but would not retroced. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel iii. 70 He durst proceed no further but retroceded from his enterprise on Ægypt. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Precession The Equinoctial Points..do retrocede or move backwards from East to West, about 50 Seconds each Year. 1850 R. Browning Easter Day xvi I felt begin The Judgment-Day: to retrocede Was too late now. 1878 19th Cent. Dec. 1051 When we retrocede further into the secondaries it seems rather doubtful whether birds, as we now understand them, had even come into being at that period. 1906 Lancet 8 Dec. 1593/2 But the disease never retroceded and the spontaneous evolution was fatal. 1964 S. Andreski Elem. Compar. Sociol. iii. ii. xxiii. 341 Russia is moving slowly in the direction of liberalization while Poland retrocedes or stands still. 2007 J. S. Maldonado Void 29 They retroceded in fear, which gave them enough space to fight. 2. transitive. Originally: †to give back (obsolete). Later: spec. to cede (territory) back again to a country. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > give back [verb (transitive)] > territory retrocede1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Retrocede,..to give back. 1770 J. Stewart Inq. into Princ. Polit. Oeconomy III. iv. ii. xxviii. 36 Also 25 millions of the interest formerly granted to the company for their loan of 1600 millions, retroceded by the company, and constituted again upon the town-house of Paris. 1803 J. Madison Let. 10 Oct. in Writings (1908) VII. 69 The promulgation under Spanish authority at that place, that Louisiana was retroceded and to be delivered to France. 1818 Gentleman's Mag. 88 ii. 172 By a treaty of 1783, Great Britain retroceded to Spain all the territory which Spain and France had ceded to her in 1763. 1879 Spectator 20 Sept. The valuable province of Kuldja..has been retroceded to China. 1955 K. M. Panikkar In Two Chinas ii. 31 After the war,..Shanghai was retroceded to China. 1995 F. G. Vogel World War I Songs i. v. 51/2 After the war, the country was retroceded to France. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > have disorder of joints [verb (intransitive)] > of gout: strike inwards retrograde1599 retrocede1791 1791 tr. A. G. Richter Treat. Extraction Cataract i. 3 The gout suddenly retroceded in consequence. 1849 Lancet 26 May 557/2 The very fact of the eruption retroceding, gives additional alarm to the disease. 1858 W. Aitken Handbk. Sci. & Pract. Med. ii. 409 If acute gout should have retroceded, and the stomach or intestinal canal be inflamed, leeches should be applied. 1893 Practitioner 50 17 A case of a very gouty man, aged 50, in whom, after exposure to cold, gout retroceded to the intestines. Derivatives ˌretroˈceded adj. ΚΠ 1818 Times 25 Apr. 2/6 France never claimed West Florida as a part of the retroceded territory. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Mar. 1/2 The most important of these chiefs,..who has always been a partisan of the Boers, occupied the central portion of the retroceded country. 1987 G. R. Hess United States' Emergence as Southeast Asian Power, 1940–1950 viii. 258 American prestige would be damaged if the French mistreated Thais living in the retroceded territories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1638 |
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