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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pulsive en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Tending to compel; compulsory.
    • What I here speak is forced from my lips / By the pulsive strain of conscience. 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

Forms

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most pulsive Degree=Sup lexicographic
more pulsive Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

pulsivity