Word.ws English Dictionary

repercussives

repercussives is the plural of repercussive.

Meaning of repercussive

Noun

repercussive (plural repercussives)

  1. (obsolete) A repellent.
    • rheums and defluxions, which if you apply a strong repercussive to the place affected , and do not take away the cause of the disease , will shift and fall straightways to another joint or placea. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...

See all 4 meanings of repercussive

Questions about repercussives

What is repercussives the plural of?
Repercussives is the plural of repercussive.

Words near repercussives in the dictionary

  1. repercussionless
  2. repercussions
  3. repercussive
  4. repercussively
  5. repercussiveness
  6. repercussives
  7. reperesentative
  8. reperesentatives
  9. reperforate
  10. reperforated
  11. reperforates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: repercussives (page history and authors); repercussive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “repercussives.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/repercussives. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.