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verb

Retrace v. t.

To trace back, as a line. "Then if the line of Turnus you retrace, He springs from Inachus of Argive race."

To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.

To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.

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Etymology of 'Retrace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Retrace" Quotes from Famous Books

... endeavoured, that the form selected should, by its air, attitude, and gigantic proportions, also excite the ideas of vastness, solemnity, and repose; adding to this that indefinite expression, which, while it is felt to act, still leaves no trace of its indistinct action. So far, it is true, he may retrace the process; but of the informing life that quickened his fiction, thus presenting the presiding Spirit of that ominous Time, he knows nothing but that he felt it, and imparted it to ...

— Lectures on Art • Washington Allston

... door and rung the bell. No answer was vouchsafed, and concluding that no one was at home, Rose turned to retrace her steps, when she espied a summer-house at a little distance, from which the ...

— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... closed again at the farther end by another gorge. When they reached this second gorge they found the road blocked by fallen trees and heaps of stones. They also saw Samnites on the heights above them. In alarm they hastened to retrace their steps, only to find the other entrance closed in the same way. After vain attempts to force a passage or to scale the surrounding heights they were ...

— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... sedulously built up, then we ought to go very slowly and very carefully about the very dangerous task of altering them. We ought, therefore, to ask ourselves, first of all, whether thought in this country is tending to do anything by which we shall retrace our steps, or by which we shall change the whole direction ...

— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson

... authorized to believe that the Emperor desired a battle so ardently, only in the hope that the Emperor Alexander would make him new overtures leading to peace. I think that he would then have accepted it after the first victory; but he would never have consented to retrace his steps after such immense preparations without having waged one of those great battles which furnish sufficient glory for a campaign; at least, that is what I heard him say repeatedly. The Emperor also often spoke of the enemies he had ...

— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant

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