What is declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. Bacon called?
retrograde — Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc. Bacon. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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