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Webster 1913 Edition

Tortive

Tor′tive

,

Adj.

[L.

tortus

, p. p. of

torquere

to twist, wind.]

Twisted; wreathed.

Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tortive

TORT'IVE

,

Adj.

[L. tortus.] Twisted; wreathed.

Definition 2024

tortive

tortive

English

Adjective

tortive ‎(comparative more tortive, superlative most tortive)

twisted, wreathed
- c. 1602 -- William Shakespeare, -- Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III
  
  As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap
  
  Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
  
  Tortive and errant from his course of growth.