irritative
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
irritative (comparative more irritative, superlative most irritative)
- serving to excite or irritate
- an irritative agent
- accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation
- an irritative fever
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- For the irritative ideas of the apparent motions of objects are now excited by irritation from internal stimulus
Noun edit
irritative (plural irritatives)
- Any substance causing irritation; an irritant.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “irritative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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irritative
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irritative