Hypertext Webster Gateway: "retrospective"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Retrospective \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
prospective; as, a retrospective view.
The sage, with retrospective eye. --Pope.
2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
retrospective
adj : concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective
self-justification" [ant: {prospective}]
n : an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
life work
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