aborsive

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adjective

abortive from the first.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveaborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)

comparative more aborsive · superlative most aborsive

  1. obsoleteabortive 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

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aborsive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aborsive.

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