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glutinative

glutinative adjective: having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative.

Adjective

glutinative (comparative more glutinative, superlative most glutinative)

  1. (obsolete) Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative
    • The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesedics, if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions , troches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, & using outwardly, aftringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and...1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 378
    • That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.1835, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, page 393

Examples of glutinative in a sentence

  • Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.1909, Ward's Automobile Topics, page 792:
  • Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.2009, Edward Deering Mansfield, Memoirs of Daniel Drake, page 200:

Forms of glutinative

comparativemore glutinative
superlativemost glutinative

Origin of glutinative

Latin glutinativus: compare French glutinatif.

Questions about glutinative

What does glutinative mean?
Glutinative means having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative.
How do you use glutinative in a sentence?
Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.
What part of speech is glutinative?
Glutinative is an adjective.

Words near glutinative in the dictionary

  1. glutinated
  2. glutinates
  3. glutinating
  4. glutination
  5. glutinations
  6. glutinative
  7. glutinoid
  8. glutinoids
  9. glutinose
  10. glutinosity
  11. glutinous

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