corsive

English

Etymology

Syncopated form of corrosive.

Adjective

corsive (comparative more corsive, superlative most corsive)

  1. (obsolete) Corrosive.

Noun

corsive (plural corsives)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A corrosive.
  2. (obsolete) Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.107:
      From commonwealths and cities I will descend to families, which have as many corsives and molestations, as frequent discontents as the rest.

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Italian

Adjective

corsive

  1. feminine plural of corsivo

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