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Webster 1913 Edition


Subsultive

Sub-sul′tive

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Adj.
Subsultory.
[R.]
Berkley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Subsultive

SUBSULT'IVE


Definition 2024


subsultive

subsultive

English

Adjective

subsultive (comparative more subsultive, superlative most subsultive)

  1. Moving in bounds or leaps; subsultory.
    • George Berkeley
      This sort of subsultive motion is ever accounted the most dangerous.
    • 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand
      The leech (Hirudo medicinalis), toads, frogs, with their barometrical croak! croak! abound in the swamps. These subsultive reptiles do not differ from the species in Europe []