allective

Borrowed from Medieval Latin allectīvus (“that allures”).

allective (plural allectives)

1. (obsolete) An allurement, enticement.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:

     disease that will not yield to the allectives of cordials and perfumes

allective (comparative more allective, superlative most allective)

1. (obsolete) Alluring.
   • 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London]: [s.n.], published [1870], →OCLC, page 77:

     Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.

• “allective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• vellicate

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [al.leːkˈtiː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.lekˈt̪iː.ve]

allēctīve

1. vocative singular masculine of allēctīvus