retroactive
adjectiveInfluencing or applying to a period prior to enactment.
Retroacting; having a reversed or retrospective action; operative with respect to past circumstances; holding good for preceding cases.
adjectiveFitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
adjectiveone which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.
adjectivedescriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously
adjectiveaffecting things past
