Definition of Corsive

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Corrosive. ¹

2. Noun. (medicine obsolete) A corrosive. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corsive

1. a corrosive [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corsive

corses
corset
corseted
corsetiere
corsetieres
corseting
corsetless
corsetlessness
corsetlike
corsetmaker
corsetmakers
corsetmaking
corsetries
corsetry
corsets
corsive (current term)
corsives
corslet
corslets
corsned
corsneds
corso
corsos
cortactin
cortege
corteges
corten
cortex
cortex cerebelli
cortex cerebri

Literary usage of Corsive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... corsive. for corrosive ; anything that corrodes, grief, distress. B. ,Tonson, Ev. Man out of Humour, i. 1.7 ; Spenser, FQ iv. 9. ..."

2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"(2) A war-horse. (3) A horse-dealer. CORSEY, 1 ». (a corruption of cor- corsive, Y rosive. ... And that same bitter corsive which did eat Her tender heart, ..."

3. The Plays of Philip Massinger: In Four Volumes by Philip Massinger (1813)
"Suppose it could be true,—a corsive* rather, Not to eat out dead flesh, but putrify What yet is ... Our old writers used corsive or corrosive indifferently, ..."

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