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Definition of Enhancive

1. Adjective. Intensifying by augmentation and enhancement.

2. Adjective. Serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body. "Enhansive makeup"

Definition of Enhancive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enhancive

enhanced enhanced interrogation enhanced remakes enhancement enhancement effect enhancements enhanceosome enhancer enhancer element enhancer sequence

enhancer trap enhancers enhances enhancing enhancing brain nodule enhancive (current term) enharbour enharboured enharbouring enharbours

enharden enhardened enhardening enhardens enharmonic enharmonical enharmonically enhaunc'd enhaunce enheahedral

Literary usage of Enhancive

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"We lift our eyes from our book, and what so kindly and so comfortable, so pleasantly enhancive of the glow of the bright firelight and playful flame, ..."

2. The Theology of the Old Testament by Andrew Bruce Davidson, Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1904)
"And of , this kind probably is the plural Elohim—a plural not numerical, but simply enhancive of the idea of might. Thus among the Israelites the might who ..."

3. The Religious Teaching of the Old Testament by Albert Cornelius Knudson (1918)
"This plural, it is often said, was not numerical, but simply enhancive of the idea of might, a plural of majesty. And this was no doubt to a large extent ..."

4. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"... the massed endeavors of scores of thousands of minds in a close-knit, mutually enhancive combination of government, university, and private industry. ..."

5. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1853)
"Though, then, what is said Bochart says that this double use of the same word, as a substantive and a verb, imports in Hebrew what is enhancive, ..."

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