Meanings
adjectivematterative (comparative more matterative, superlative most matterative)
comparative more matterative · superlative most matterative
- obsoleteHaving the nature of or containing matter or pus
Neither shall you need fear the Increase of any evil Humours, by reason that the Skin being sever'd by means of the hot Iron, it doth ripen and digest all manner of Putrefaction and matterative Stuff, whereby it venteth and passeth away very easily […]
1720, E. R. Gent, The Experienc'd Farrier, or Farring Compleated
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