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
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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