Dec. 1st, 2011

retrodict

Dec. 1st, 2011 07:19 am
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retrodict (reh-truh-DIKT) - v., to make deductions about the past (or a past state) based on the present.


The opposite direction from predict. Coined from Latin roots in 1949, on the pattern of predict.

---L.
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