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Definition of Contractive
1. a. Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Definition of Contractive
1. Adjective. Able to contract; contractile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contractive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractive
Literary usage of Contractive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1880)
"His mind, like his muscles, has expansive and contractive ... These contractive
and expansive faculties of the mind preserve,— when they are properly ..."
2. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1890)
"His mind, like his muscles, has expansive and contractive ... These contractive
and expansive faculties of the mind preserve,— when they are properly ..."
3. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, M. S. Keane, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"Due to this one-to-one correspondence between contractive measure A-graph systems
and contractive Shannon graphs one can formulate here arguments and ..."
4. Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice by Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Amos Gerald Hull, Frederick Greenwood Snelling (1885)
"Heaviness in the leg, in the region of the ankles, with contractive sensation in
the leg from below upwards.—Sudden excessive pains in the sole of the foot. ..."
5. Johnson's Therapeutic Key by Isaac D. Johnson (1920)
"Violent contractive pains in uterus, [See.] 'Every pain causes an inclination to
go to stool. Much pain in small of back, worse by turning in bed. ..."
6. Family Homoeopathy by John Ellis (1872)
"... when there is severe headache with pressure from within, out ; aggravation of
the headache from pressure- or touch, or a contractive pain in tho scalp. ..."
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