recusative

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/

Adjective

recusative (comparative more recusative, superlative most recusative)

(obsolete, rare) Refusing; denying; negative.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
  it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “recusative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)