retromingentn.adj.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 147 Except it be in Retromingents, and such as couple backward. View more context for this quotation

?1734 ‘Pilgrim Plowden’ Farrago 137 This prodigious pomp or periphrasis signifies but a retromingent's puff.

1825 W. B. Stevenson Hist. Narr. Resid. S. Amer. II. iii. 86 The animals are retromingents.

1885 F. F. Arbuthnot & R. F. Burton in tr. Ananga-ranga x. 124 The classical idea of elephants, like other retromingents, copulating ‘à tergo’, was never known to the Hindus, who were too well acquainted with the habits of the animals.

1692 Athenian Mercury 21 May 9 The Lacedemonian Cats..are retromingent, and couple prone and supine.

1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1585 Nor could its Penis have been thus withdrawn..if (as in other Creatures that are retromingent also) the Penis here had been fastned to the Ossa Pubis.

1733 J. Swift Misc. Prose (ed. 2) III. 65 I likewise earnestly intreat..that the Men would remember, that they are become Retromingent, and not by Inadvertency lift up against Walls and Posts.

1817 M. Keating Trav. I. 318 The nobler animals, the lion, the elephant, are retromingent.

1874 W. H. Van Buren & E. L. Keyes Pract. Treat. Surg. Dis. Genito-urinary Organs 39 The patient is usually retromingent.

1978 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 10 July 4/7 Bradlee wrote him a note denouncing him as a ‘carping, vindictive, retromingent vigilante’.

1995 Mammalian Species No. 488. 5/1 Males [sc. African civets] are also known to direct urine backwards when marking (retromingent urination), a behavior more commonly associated with felids.

1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Retromingently, in a retromingent manner.

1992 V. Randolph & G. Legman Blow Candle Out 589 There is a poem about a girl who, on a challenge, ‘pisses higher than all the boys’ by turning around, bending forward, and urinating retromingently like a lioness.