| 单词 |
retroact |
| 释义 |
retroact, v.|riːtrəʊ-, rɛtrəʊˈækt| [ad. L. retroact-, ppl. stem of retroagĕre: see retro- and act v. So F. rétroagir.] intr. To react; also, to operate in a backward direction or towards the past.
1795Hussey in Burke's Corr. (1844) IV. 279 The very ghost of that bill would retro-act, and put down the House of Peers. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vi. 330 A simple shade or image of the brain, Is merely passive, does not retro⁓act, Is seen, but sees not. 1877Scribner's Mag. XV. 223/2 That woman could not retroact and touch the memory of Ida. |

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