Definition of Retroacts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of retroact) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Retroacts

1. retroact [v] - See also: retroact

Lexicographical Neighbors of Retroacts

retro-orbitally
retro future
retro running
retroact
retroacted
retroacting
retroaction
retroactions
retroactive
retroactive inhibition
retroactive law
retroactively
retroactiveness
retroactivities
retroactivity
retroacts
retroaddition
retroadditions
retroadductor space
retroauricular
retroauricular lymph nodes
retroazimuthal
retrobuccal
retrobulbar
retrobulbar abscess
retrobulbar anaesthesia
retrobulbar haemorrhage
retrobulbar neuritis
retrocaecal
retrocaecal abscess

Literary usage of Retroacts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Proceedings in Rem by Rufus Waples (1882)
"Condemnation always retroacts to the time when the property first became responsible, unless otherwise ordered by statute. It relates to the time of the ..."

2. Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: Copied for the Cape by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Great Britain Public Record Office (1901)
"... conceived it my duty to request of the Commission that the case should be postponed till that I should have an opportunity of examining the retroacts of ..."

3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Ebenezer Charlton Black (1906)
"The force of the superlative in ' cursed'st' retroacts on ' blest'; so that the sense is ' most blest or most cursed.' So in Measure for Measure, IV, vi, ..."

4. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Ebenezer Charlton Black (1906)
"The force of the superlative in ' cursed'st' retroacts on ' blest'; so that the sense is ' most blest or most cursed.' So in Measure for Measure, IV, vi, ..."

5. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1906)
"The force of the superlative in ' cursed'st' retroacts on ' blest'; so that the sense is ' most blest or most cursed.' So in Measure for Measure, IV, vi, ..."

6. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1896)
"And let us remember that any poison to public morality deadens the popular conscience, and retroacts upon that of the individuals composing the community. ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"580 et seq., it Is said: "By the law of relation, an attachment Judgment retroacts to the time the property was first attached; to the time it was first ..."

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