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Definition of Inflictive
1. a. Causing infliction; acting as an infliction.
Definition of Inflictive
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to or causing infliction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inflictive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflictive
Literary usage of Inflictive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Inquisition Unmasked: Being an Historical and Philosophical Account of by Antonio Puigblanch (1816)
"... danger thereby incurred by the culprit, than the very form of the inflictive
sentence, it may be proper to insert it in this place in its exact words. ..."
2. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1881)
"All crimes are punished by inflictive and infamous penalties, which involve loss
of political privileges ; and for certain misdemeanors the French courts ..."
3. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Proceedings of the American by American Social Science Association, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root (1882)
"All crimes are punished by inflictive and infamous penalties, which involve loss
of political privileges; and for certain misdemeanors the French courts may ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"... most interesting topics of conversation, and debarred any freedom of intercourse,
because I am unwilling to start subjects inflictive of mental pain, ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"inflictive, (in-fli.k'-tiv) a. Imposing a punishment. To INFLUENCE, (in'-flu-ense)
vo To act upon with directive or impulsive power ; to modify to any ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"... any freedom of intercourse, because I am unwilling to start subjects inflictive
of mental pain, and which rouse a sense of unmerited persecution. ..."
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