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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

retrospicere

;

retro

back +

specere

spectum

, to look. See

and cf

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.

It may be useful to

retrospect

to an early period.

A. Hamilton.

Noun.

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

Cowper.

We may introduce a song without

retrospect

to the old comedy.

Landor.

Noun.

[L. retro, back, and specio, to look.]

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of something past. The retrospect of a life well spent affords peace of mind in old age.