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: Printed by 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.

Anagrams

• Rovišće, viscero-, voicers

Italian

Adjective

corsive

1. feminine plural of corsivo

Anagrams

• Verscio, rovesci