Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Retrospect

Retrospect , intransitive verb

[Latin retrospicere; retro back + specere, spectum, to look. See Spy, and cf. Expect.]

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. — A. Hamilton

Retrospect , noun

A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past. — Cowper
We may introduce a song without retrospect to the old comedy. — Landor