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Regressive   Listen
adjective
Regressive  adj.  
1.
Passing back; returning.
2.
Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
Regressive metamorphism.
(a)
(Biol.) See Retrogression.
(b)
(Physiol.) See Katabolism.





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"Regressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... as was the disproportion, with the purpose of recapturing the artillery. A singular contrast this to the conduct of General Fawcet, who retreated hastily to Duncannon upon the first intelligence of this disaster. Such a regressive movement was so little anticipated by the gallant Donegals, that they continued to advance against the enemy, until the precision with which the captured artillery was served against themselves, and the non-appearance of the promised aid, warned them to retire. At Wexford, they found all in confusion ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... accumulated beyond the power of the oxygen to consume, which would successively absorb from the albuminous substance a part of its vital elements, and thus a check would be caused in the endless change of matter in the tissues in the nutritive and regressive transformations. ...
— The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato; and How to Cook the Potato • D. H. Compton and Pierre Blot
... while regressive thinking is fantastic in type, as well as concerned with the past—a past which in fancy takes on the luster of the Golden Age. Sanity and insanity are, roughly speaking, states where progressive or regressive thinking rule. The essence of a functional ...
— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch


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