regrede

English

Etymology

From Latin regredi (“to go back”). Compare regrade, regress.

Verb

regrede (third-person singular simple present regredes, present participle regreding, simple past and past participle regreded)

  1. (intransitive) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
    • 1878, The Educational Times, page 316:
      […] the instantaneous parabola decreases in magnitude and descends in position throughout the entire motion, while its axis regredes during the ascent and progredes during the descent of the particle.
  • progrede
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