Meanings
adjectivesubsultive (comparative more subsultive, superlative most subsultive)
comparative more subsultive · superlative most subsultive
- Moving in bounds or leaps; subsultory.
This sort of subsultive motion is ever accounted the most dangerous.
c. 1746-1747, George Berkeley, To the Publisher (unnamed piece, exact date and addressee unknown)1 more example
The leech (Hirudo medicinalis), toads, frogs, with their barometrical croak! croak! abound in the swamps. These subsultive reptiles do not differ from the species in Europe […]
1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand
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