Word Meanings - REGREDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.

Related words: (words related to REGREDE)

• ORBITARY
  Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• ORBIT
  The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. 2. An orb or ball. Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
• ORBITELAE
  A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• ORBITOLITES
  A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
• RETROGRADE
  Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. Chaucer. 2. Tending or moving backward; having
• APSIS
  One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• ORBITOSPHENOID
  Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• ORBITUDE; ORBITY
  Orbation. Bp. Hall.
• ORBITONASAL
  Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
• PLANETARY
  Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."
• ORBITAL
  Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index , in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
• ORBITUARY
  Orbital.
• PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
  Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• EXORBITANTLY
  In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
• INFRAORBITAL
  Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
• EXORBITATE
  To go out of the track; to deviate. Bentley.
• ANTEORBITAL
  See ANTORBITAL
• INTERORBITAL
  Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
• SORBITION
  The act of drinking or sipping.
• EXORBITANT
  to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See 1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive;
• ANTORBITAL
  Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.