RETRORSELY, adverb retros'ly. [Latin retrorsum, backward.] In a backward direction; as a stem retrorsely aculeate.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
RETRORSELY, adverb retros'ly. [Latin retrorsum, backward.] In a backward direction; as a stem retrorsely aculeate.
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