Meanings
adjectivecorsive (comparative more corsive, superlative most corsive)
comparative more corsive · superlative most corsive
- obsoleteCorrosive.
nouncorsive (plural corsives)
plural corsives
- obsoletemedicineA corrosive.
- obsoleteSomething damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil.
From commonwealths and cities I will descend to families, which have as many corsives and molestations, as frequent discontents as the rest.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 107
Origin
Syncopated form of corrosive.
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