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aborsive

aborsive adjective: abortive from the first.

Adjective

aborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)

  1. (obsolete) abortive from the first.
    • 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.1639, Thomas Fuller, The historie of the holy warre, page 272

Forms of aborsive

comparativemore aborsive
superlativemost aborsive

Questions about aborsive

What does aborsive mean?
Aborsive means abortive from the first.
What part of speech is aborsive?
Aborsive is an adjective.

Words near aborsive in the dictionary

  1. aborne
  2. aborning
  3. Abors
  4. aborsement
  5. aborsements
  6. aborsive
  7. abort
  8. abortable
  9. abortal
  10. abortation
  11. abortations

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