retrocessionn.

Brit.

/ˌrɛtrə(ʊ)ˈsɛʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrɛtrəˈsɛʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1600s– retrocession; also Scottish pre-1700 retrocessioun.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rétrocession; Latin retrocession-, retrocessio.

Etymology: < Middle French, French rétrocession retreat (1550), act of giving back or restoring (1640) and its etymon post-classical Latin retrocession-, retrocessio backward movement (4th cent. in Augustine), decrease, decline (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin retrōcess- , past participial stem of retrōcēdere retrocede v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish retrocesión (16th cent. as retrocession ), Italian retrocessione (a1598). Compare later retrocede v., retrocess v., and also retrocedence n., retroceding n. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (rītro-) /riːtrəʊ-/ for the first element.

a. Scots Law. Restoration or reconveyance of a right (esp. over property) from the assignee to the person who originally assigned it to him or her; an instance of this. Also: a writ drawn up for this purpose (now rare).

ΚΠ

c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 448 Gif ony man makis ane uther his assignay to ane reversioun, for redemptioun of landis, and the assignay lauchfullie intimat his assignatioun to the possessour of the landis, and thairefter mak retrocessioun of the said assignatioun to the assignant, restorand..him in the place and stait quhairin he was [etc.].

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxiii. 4 Retrocessions, which are returning back of the Right assigned from the assigney to the Cedent, which are also called Repositions.

1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 165 A Retrocession is a Writ, by the Assigney, reponing and restoring the Cedent in his full Right and Place.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. v. §1 If the assignee makes over his right to a third person, the deed is called a translation; and if that third person conveys it back to the cedent, it is called a retrocession.

1826 W. Bell Robert Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) II. Retrocession, a term signifying the reconveyance of any right by an assignee back into the person of the cedent, who thus recovers his former right by becoming the assignee of his own assignee.

1905 Scots Digest 2 1938/2 After several years the debtor discovered that the creditor had bought the policy, and was held entitled to reduce the sale and demand retrocession.

1987 W. W. McBryde Law of Contract Scotl. xvii. 406 A subject assigned is sometimes reassigned to the cedent... The reconveyance is called a ‘retrocession’. The alternative term of ‘reposition’..is no longer used.

b. The action or fact of ceding territory back (chiefly to a country or government); an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun] > of territory

retrocession1714

recession1832

1714 Tractatus Pacis & Amicitiæ 25 All the Powers..may be amicably kept in an equal Poise; it not remaining in the Disposal of any of the Parties to alter this Federal Equilibrium by way of any Contract or Renunciation, or Retrocession.

1796 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 310 We want much to know what retrocessions you intend for us and our allies.

1826 J. Mackintosh Case Donna Maria in Wks. (1846) II. 415 The Portuguese plenipotentiaries..required the retrocession of Olivenza, which had been wrested from them at Badajos.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 1/1 The retrocession of Basutoland to the Imperial Government.

1894 T. F. Robley Hist. Bourbon County, Kansas i. 5 The government began locating the various tribes..from the East and South on reservations, by cessions, trades, treaties, removals, and retrocessions.

1937 Times 2 Jan. 6/4 How could the retrocession of one or two ports and their hinterland in West Africa seriously endanger our world position?

1996 S. Korman Right of Conquest ii. v. 171 In June 1940, the USSR, threatening force against Romania, had demanded and obtained from that country the retrocession of Bessarabia.

2. Astronomy. = retrogradation n. 1; spec. = precession n.² 1a. Chiefly in retrocession of the equinoxes (cf. precession of the equinoxes at precession n.² 1a). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > retrograde motion

retrogradation?c1450

retrogration1567

regradation1607

retrograde1613

retrogression1619

retrocession1639

regression1640

regress1642

repedation1646

retrogation1646

antecedence1649

1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes i. ii. 31 This Retrocession [L. retrocessum] is called by the Greekes τροπὴ, and the Parallel Circles, drawn through the same points, are likewise called Tropickes.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Precession Which retrograde Motion is call'd the Precession, Recession, or Retrocession of the Equinoxes.

1860 O. M. Mitchel Pop. Astron. i. 22 This discovery of the retrocession of the equinoxes led to a more critical examination of the sun's apparent motion.

1913 Mod. Philol. 11 15 A general discussion of the retrocession of the equinoxes.

1934 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper.Sci. III. 126 Our author tries..to allow for the error in the Julian calendar and the retrocession of the solstices and equinoxes.

1980 R. B. Winn tr. H. Reichenbach From Copernicus to Einstein v. 102 The planet Mercury shows certain deviations from its course... This was found in the lateral retrocession of one of the extreme orbital points.

a. The action or fact of moving backward, retreating, or receding. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun]

retreat1594

reciprocation1603

retrocession1642

retrogradation1644

disadvancing1659

retrocedence1703

retrogression1704

backening1748

backwarding1765

throwback1851

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica iii. iii. §66. 97 This argument is drawn from the stars retrocession.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 37 If it bee said that the Retrocession of the Sun and shadow in the Diall of Ahaz, was as great a wonder as anie.

1694 W. Cowper Μυοτομια Reformata 29 That oblique Insertion of the Uretres and Ductus Bilarius passing between the Membranes of the Intestines and Bladder, whereby the retrocession of the Bile in one, and the Urine in the other is prevented.

1721 Philos. Trans. Abridg'd 1700–20 (Royal Soc.) 4 i. iv. 373 The Bubble..will have many short descents..each of which being over it will ascend again. These retrocessions are frequent.

1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 107 These transient and involuntary excursions and retrocessions of invention.

1834 Biblical Repertory & Theol. Rev. Oct. 472 During all this period..a retrocession towards semi-pelagian opinions had been taking place.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat i. 25 This retrocession of the index is due..to the lowering of the temperature within the bulb.

1882 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 309 An appeal to the present rate of the retrocession of waterfalls.

1905 Geogr. Jrnl. Jan. 50 To..arrive at any approximation of the time..is hopeless until points be accurately fixed by which to register the retrocession of the falls in stated intervals.

†b. Christian Church. The return of the priest or clergy to the vestry after divine service. Cf. recession n.¹ 3g. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > parts of service > return to vestry > [noun]

retrocession1877

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 206 Psalms were sung in the Retrocession.

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 419 Retrocession of Celebrant.

4. Medicine.

a. The (supposed) inward movement of a disease, esp. gout or an eruption of the skin, so as to affect the internal organs. Now rare and chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > invasiveness > retrocession

retrocession1716

retropulsion1740

retrocedence1858

1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium 130 For whatever Symptoms happen from the Retrocession of a Bubo, may also happen in the Small-Pox from the Pustules returning or turning Sessile.

1771 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 147 The retrocession of the morbid acrimony in the measles, is prevented by nothing more powerfully than by the cortex.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 545 Fainting occurs from a repulsion or retrocession of gout, exanthems, or various other diseases.

1856 G. B. Wood Treat. Therapeutics & Pharmacol. I. 53 The agent should be applied to a part of the body towards which there is a natural tendency of the morbid action to flow, and in which it would be safe; as..in cases of retrocedent eruption, to the part of the surface from which the retrocession has taken place.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 470 The sudden retrocession of an extensive eruption of phlegmonous scrofulides.

1921 L. J. Llewellyn Gout xviii. 244 When death did occur during or in close proximity to an acute paroxysm, it was by our forefathers attributed either to its retrocession or to some misplaced or irregular manifestation.

2004 M. Wood Pract. Trad. Western Herbalism 52 Retrocession of the rash in smallpox was a very serious problem for the old doctors.

b. = regression n. 3b. Cf. retrogression n. 3c. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [noun] > disappearance of an eruption

retrocession1804

retrogression1842

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 230 From this time the remains of the complaint made a gradual retrocession, and the child recovered.

1853 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 2) 551 Thus we may express the cessation, or retrocession, of cancer.

1855 W. Braithwaite et al. Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg. 211 The latter process, however—that of retrocession—seldom, perhaps never, takes place to an extent proportionate to the diminution of the normal muscular fibre of the uterus.

1885 W. R. Gowers Lect. Diagnosis Dis. Brain & Spinal Cord 196 Evidence that arrest and retrocession of the growth follow the administration of iodide of potassium or mercury is strongly in favor of the syphilitic nature of the tumor.

1920 E. L. Oatman Diagnos. Fundus Oculi xiv. 271 In exceptional cases the glaucomatous stage of sarcoma is replaced or followed by plastic iridocyclitis, atrophy of the eye and apparent retrocession of the growth.

†5. Surgery. Return of a prolapsed part to its normal position, esp. that of the intestine to the abdominal cavity. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 356 If at the same time the rectum be labouring under any morbid irritability..the protrusion will be greatly exacerbated, a much larger portion of the gut will be exposed, and its retrocession will be more difficult.

1866 Med. & Surg. Reporter 15 Dec. 494/1 Retrocession of the prolapsed vagina.

1895 Trans. Michigan State Med. Soc. 19 382 The opening of the abdomen with the women in this posture is followed by an immediate retrocession of the intestines.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	retrocession
释义	retrocessionn. Brit. /ˌrɛtrə(ʊ)ˈsɛʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛtrəˈsɛʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1600s– retrocession; also Scottish pre-1700 retrocessioun. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rétrocession; Latin retrocession-, retrocessio. Etymology: < Middle French, French rétrocession retreat (1550), act of giving back or restoring (1640) and its etymon post-classical Latin retrocession-, retrocessio backward movement (4th cent. in Augustine), decrease, decline (14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin retrōcess- , past participial stem of retrōcēdere retrocede v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Spanish retrocesión (16th cent. as retrocession ), Italian retrocessione (a1598). Compare later retrocede v., retrocess v., and also retrocedence n., retroceding n. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (rītro-) /riːtrəʊ-/ for the first element. 1. a. Scots Law. Restoration or reconveyance of a right (esp. over property) from the assignee to the person who originally assigned it to him or her; an instance of this. Also: a writ drawn up for this purpose (now rare). ΚΠ c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 448 Gif ony man makis ane uther his assignay to ane reversioun, for redemptioun of landis, and the assignay lauchfullie intimat his assignatioun to the possessour of the landis, and thairefter mak retrocessioun of the said assignatioun to the assignant, restorand..him in the place and stait quhairin he was [etc.]. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxiii. 4 Retrocessions, which are returning back of the Right assigned from the assigney to the Cedent, which are also called Repositions. 1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 165 A Retrocession is a Writ, by the Assigney, reponing and restoring the Cedent in his full Right and Place. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. v. §1 If the assignee makes over his right to a third person, the deed is called a translation; and if that third person conveys it back to the cedent, it is called a retrocession. 1826 W. Bell Robert Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (ed. 3) II. Retrocession, a term signifying the reconveyance of any right by an assignee back into the person of the cedent, who thus recovers his former right by becoming the assignee of his own assignee. 1905 Scots Digest 2 1938/2 After several years the debtor discovered that the creditor had bought the policy, and was held entitled to reduce the sale and demand retrocession. 1987 W. W. McBryde Law of Contract Scotl. xvii. 406 A subject assigned is sometimes reassigned to the cedent... The reconveyance is called a ‘retrocession’. The alternative term of ‘reposition’..is no longer used. b. The action or fact of ceding territory back (chiefly to a country or government); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > giving back or restitution > [noun] > of territory retrocession1714 recession1832 1714 Tractatus Pacis & Amicitiæ 25 All the Powers..may be amicably kept in an equal Poise; it not remaining in the Disposal of any of the Parties to alter this Federal Equilibrium by way of any Contract or Renunciation, or Retrocession. 1796 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 310 We want much to know what retrocessions you intend for us and our allies. 1826 J. Mackintosh Case Donna Maria in Wks. (1846) II. 415 The Portuguese plenipotentiaries..required the retrocession of Olivenza, which had been wrested from them at Badajos. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Jan. 1/1 The retrocession of Basutoland to the Imperial Government. 1894 T. F. Robley Hist. Bourbon County, Kansas i. 5 The government began locating the various tribes..from the East and South on reservations, by cessions, trades, treaties, removals, and retrocessions. 1937 Times 2 Jan. 6/4 How could the retrocession of one or two ports and their hinterland in West Africa seriously endanger our world position? 1996 S. Korman Right of Conquest ii. v. 171 In June 1940, the USSR, threatening force against Romania, had demanded and obtained from that country the retrocession of Bessarabia. 2. Astronomy. = retrogradation n. 1; spec. = precession n.² 1a. Chiefly in retrocession of the equinoxes (cf. precession of the equinoxes at precession n.² 1a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > retrograde motion retrogradation?c1450 retrogration1567 regradation1607 retrograde1613 retrogression1619 retrocession1639 regression1640 regress1642 repedation1646 retrogation1646 antecedence1649 1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes i. ii. 31 This Retrocession [L. retrocessum] is called by the Greekes τροπὴ, and the Parallel Circles, drawn through the same points, are likewise called Tropickes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Precession Which retrograde Motion is call'd the Precession, Recession, or Retrocession of the Equinoxes. 1860 O. M. Mitchel Pop. Astron. i. 22 This discovery of the retrocession of the equinoxes led to a more critical examination of the sun's apparent motion. 1913 Mod. Philol. 11 15 A general discussion of the retrocession of the equinoxes. 1934 L. Thorndike Hist. Magic & Exper.Sci. III. 126 Our author tries..to allow for the error in the Julian calendar and the retrocession of the solstices and equinoxes. 1980 R. B. Winn tr. H. Reichenbach From Copernicus to Einstein v. 102 The planet Mercury shows certain deviations from its course... This was found in the lateral retrocession of one of the extreme orbital points. 3. a. The action or fact of moving backward, retreating, or receding. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] retreat1594 reciprocation1603 retrocession1642 retrogradation1644 disadvancing1659 retrocedence1703 retrogression1704 backening1748 backwarding1765 throwback1851 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica iii. iii. §66. 97 This argument is drawn from the stars retrocession. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 37 If it bee said that the Retrocession of the Sun and shadow in the Diall of Ahaz, was as great a wonder as anie. 1694 W. Cowper Μυοτομια Reformata 29 That oblique Insertion of the Uretres and Ductus Bilarius passing between the Membranes of the Intestines and Bladder, whereby the retrocession of the Bile in one, and the Urine in the other is prevented. 1721 Philos. Trans. Abridg'd 1700–20 (Royal Soc.) 4 i. iv. 373 The Bubble..will have many short descents..each of which being over it will ascend again. These retrocessions are frequent. 1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 107 These transient and involuntary excursions and retrocessions of invention. 1834 Biblical Repertory & Theol. Rev. Oct. 472 During all this period..a retrocession towards semi-pelagian opinions had been taking place. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat i. 25 This retrocession of the index is due..to the lowering of the temperature within the bulb. 1882 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 309 An appeal to the present rate of the retrocession of waterfalls. 1905 Geogr. Jrnl. Jan. 50 To..arrive at any approximation of the time..is hopeless until points be accurately fixed by which to register the retrocession of the falls in stated intervals. †b. Christian Church. The return of the priest or clergy to the vestry after divine service. Cf. recession n.¹ 3g. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > return to vestry > [noun] retrocession1877 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 206 Psalms were sung in the Retrocession. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 419 Retrocession of Celebrant. 4. Medicine. a. The (supposed) inward movement of a disease, esp. gout or an eruption of the skin, so as to affect the internal organs. Now rare and chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > invasiveness > retrocession retrocession1716 retropulsion1740 retrocedence1858 1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium 130 For whatever Symptoms happen from the Retrocession of a Bubo, may also happen in the Small-Pox from the Pustules returning or turning Sessile. 1771 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 147 The retrocession of the morbid acrimony in the measles, is prevented by nothing more powerfully than by the cortex. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 545 Fainting occurs from a repulsion or retrocession of gout, exanthems, or various other diseases. 1856 G. B. Wood Treat. Therapeutics & Pharmacol. I. 53 The agent should be applied to a part of the body towards which there is a natural tendency of the morbid action to flow, and in which it would be safe; as..in cases of retrocedent eruption, to the part of the surface from which the retrocession has taken place. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 470 The sudden retrocession of an extensive eruption of phlegmonous scrofulides. 1921 L. J. Llewellyn Gout xviii. 244 When death did occur during or in close proximity to an acute paroxysm, it was by our forefathers attributed either to its retrocession or to some misplaced or irregular manifestation. 2004 M. Wood Pract. Trad. Western Herbalism 52 Retrocession of the rash in smallpox was a very serious problem for the old doctors. b. = regression n. 3b. Cf. retrogression n. 3c. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [noun] > disappearance of an eruption retrocession1804 retrogression1842 1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 230 From this time the remains of the complaint made a gradual retrocession, and the child recovered. 1853 J. Paget Lect. Surg. Pathol. (ed. 2) 551 Thus we may express the cessation, or retrocession, of cancer. 1855 W. Braithwaite et al. Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg. 211 The latter process, however—that of retrocession—seldom, perhaps never, takes place to an extent proportionate to the diminution of the normal muscular fibre of the uterus. 1885 W. R. Gowers Lect. Diagnosis Dis. Brain & Spinal Cord 196 Evidence that arrest and retrocession of the growth follow the administration of iodide of potassium or mercury is strongly in favor of the syphilitic nature of the tumor. 1920 E. L. Oatman Diagnos. Fundus Oculi xiv. 271 In exceptional cases the glaucomatous stage of sarcoma is replaced or followed by plastic iridocyclitis, atrophy of the eye and apparent retrocession of the growth. †5. Surgery. Return of a prolapsed part to its normal position, esp. that of the intestine to the abdominal cavity. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 356 If at the same time the rectum be labouring under any morbid irritability..the protrusion will be greatly exacerbated, a much larger portion of the gut will be exposed, and its retrocession will be more difficult. 1866 Med. & Surg. Reporter 15 Dec. 494/1 Retrocession of the prolapsed vagina. 1895 Trans. Michigan State Med. Soc. 19 382 The opening of the abdomen with the women in this posture is followed by an immediate retrocession of the intestines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1600
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