retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.

" "Five years," Van Brunt murmured retrospectively, as though turning things over in his mind.

Courts of justice administer the total of the supreme power retrospectively, involved in the name of the most dignified part.

"But whatever," he adds, "may be thought of this, it is certain that the four stars are here symbolical of the four cardinal virtues;" and he refers to canto xxxi, where those virtues are retrospectively associated with these stars.

This decree was made to act retrospectively, and to continue until the enemies of France should desist from depredations on the neutral vessels bound to the ports of France.

Yes, as before I had prospectively assumed that Bartleby would depart, so now I might retrospectively assume that departed he was.

How many thoughts come surging up, from the wellspring of memory, as we looked upon her in her last repose, and glanced retrospectively upon her useful and exemplary life.

I looked at her a long time, ready to run, saying to myself: "Who can be with her therebehind the curtainswho is it stifles and torments her and makes her moan in her sleep?" TOBY-DOG, (frightened retrospectively)

As he sauntered slowly down the river road that afternoon, smiling retrospectively from time to time as he looked into the swift, narrow stream that had welcomed his adversaries of the morning, he little thought of the encounter in store for him.

It is an hypothesis that functions retrospectively only, not prospectively.

It seemed highly amusing at the time, though now, viewed retrospectively, it looks merely silly.

Now, the phenomena of life occurring with the rapidity of lightning can only be studied retrospectively; that is to say, in the domain of memory, except to be verified if the attention, free from all other preöccupation, allows us to seize them on the wing once more.

He grinned retrospectively and looked at his knuckles, one of which showed a patch of new skin, pink and yet tender.