tortive

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adjective

Twisted; wreathed.

OriginLatin torquere →
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Meanings

adjectivetortive (comparative more tortive, superlative most tortive)

comparative more tortive · superlative most tortive

  1. Twisted; wreathed.

    [K]nots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth.

    c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]

Origin

  1. Latintorquere“to twist”
  2. Englishtortive

From Latin torquere (“to twist”). Sometimes attributed to Shakespeare.

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