glutinative

comparative more glutinative · superlative most glutinative

1. obsoleteHaving the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative

   This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.

   2009, Edward Deering Mansfield, Memoirs of Daniel Drake, page 200

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   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 turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, & c.

   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

   To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.

   1887 August 6, Eriphyle R. Whiting, “Jellies”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 5, number 7, page 167

   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

   Both ideal cases, whether the expression of grammatical meanings is extremely glutinative or extremely cumulative, are easy to analyse: grammatical meanings are either expressed by respective segments, or by one segment which is not further analysable.

   1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 28