oppilative
English
editEtymology
editCompare French opilatif. See oppilate.
Adjective
editoppilative (comparative more oppilative, superlative most oppilative)
- (obsolete) Obstructive.
- 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land:
- And if some have found it oppilative, it hath come by the too too much use of it ; as when one drinkes over much wine , instead of comforting and warming himselfe , he breeds and nourisheth cold diseases
Noun
editoppilative (plural oppilatives)
References
edit- “oppilative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editAdjective
editoppilative f