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disturbative en · ADJ

Etymology

From disturbāt-, past participial stem of disturbō, + -ive. By surface analysis, disturb + -ative.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
   • It is not to say that all crowds are disturbative, or woe betide fashionable assemblies; but the element of disturbance is always at hand wherever a crowd is collected. 1859, Dudley Costello, “Gurney; or, Two Fortunes”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 46, page 102:

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