recedent

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English

Adjective

recedent (comparative more recedent, superlative most recedent)

  1. Synonym of receding.
    • 1851, Russell Thacher Trall, The Hydropathic Encyclopedia (page 123)
      The recedent or retrograde form is marked by a sudden subsidence of the inflammatory state of the joints, succeeded immediately by an affection of some internal part, where is thenceforth the seat of the morbid manifestations.

Latin

Verb

recēdent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of recēdō