Definition of Solutive

1. a. Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

Definition of Solutive

1. Adjective. Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative. ¹

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Definition of Solutive

1. tending to dissolve [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solutive

solum
solums
solunar
solus
solutal
solute
solutes
solutio
solution
solution of contiguity
solution of continuity
solution pressure
solutionism
solutionless
solutions
solutive (current term)
solvabilities
solvability
solvable
solvableness
solvate
solvated
solvates
solvating
solvating agent
solvation
solvations
solvatochromic
solvatochromism
solve

Literary usage of Solutive

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

1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1844)
"... with irritant and re- solutive clauses, voiding the right both of creditors and proprietors who contravened the clauses of the entail. ..."

2. Melbourne universal exhibition, 1880. France. notices on the designs by Melbourne internat. exhib, France Ministère des travaux publics (1880)
"Thus the solutive of the equation of the third degree z3+xz + y=o, a curve formed by the right lines of figure 9, and which is a semi-cubical parabola ..."

3. History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times by William. Whewell (1837)
"Thus the change of consistency would be solutive when solids become liquid or liquids gaseous, and such changes must be fundamental facts of our ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"For here at once is a fact of primary interest: the state which I have called glacial or solutive is one from which we may secure recovery; ..."

5. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1892)
"If so, it could never become the source of cancer, unless as a solutive, ... Perhaps it was the observation of some such solutive process as this that led ..."

6. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1871)
"For here at once is a fact of primary interest: the state which I have called glacial or solutive is one from which we may secure recovery; ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow by Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (1879)
"Nitric acid, called dissolving or solutive water, was prepared by distilling 1 lb. ... By mixing sal ammoniac, or common salt, with the solutive water, ..."

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