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Webster 1913 Edition
Aborsive
A-bor′sive
(ȧ-bôr′sĭv)
, Adj.
Abortive.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
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aborsive
aborsive
English
Adjective
aborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)
- (obsolete) abortive from the first.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, (Please provide the title of the work), page 272:
- Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant.
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References
- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 1975, Vol. 1 p. 6