corsive
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editEtymology
editSyncopated form of corrosive.
Adjective
editcorsive (comparative more corsive, superlative most corsive)
Noun
editcorsive (plural corsives)
- (medicine, obsolete) A corrosive.
- (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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