Definition of Obstructives

1. obstructive [n] - See also: obstructive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obstructives

obstructive apnea
obstructive hydrocephalus
obstructive jaundice
obstructive lung disease
obstructive murmur
obstructive pneumonia
obstructive pulmonary overinflation
obstructive shock
obstructive sleep apnoea
obstructive thrombus
obstructive uropathy
obstructively
obstructiveness
obstructives (current term)
obstructor
obstructors
obstructs
obstruent
obstruents
obstupefaction
obstupefied
obstupefy
obstupefying
obtain
obtainabilities
obtainability
obtainable
obtained

Literary usage of Obstructives

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

1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1878)
"... rest of the Session—The Budget—Sitting of July 31—The Irish obstructives—Modifications in the Rules of Debate.—Tactics of the obstructives—Sir Stafford ..."

2. Francis Deák, Hungarian Statesman: A Memoir by Florence Mary Arnold-Forster (1880)
"... and restoration of harmony between Austria and Hungary—Vehement anti-Austrian spirit in Hungary—Indignation against Hungarian obstructives in Austria ..."

3. Francis Deák, Hungarian Statesman: A Memoir by Florence Mary Arnold-Forster (1880)
"... and restoration of harmony between Austria and Hungary—Vehement anti-Austrian spirit in Hungary—Indignation against Hungarian obstructives in Austria ..."

4. The Senses and the Intellect by Alexander Bain (1855)
"The obstructives that prevent the revival of the past through similitude may be classed under the two heads of Faintness and Diversity. ..."

5. The Phreno-magnet, and Mirror of Nature: A Record of Facts, Experiments, and by Spencer Timothy Hall (1843)
"STOCKS AND THE DONCASTER obstructives. A short time since, Mr. Stocks, of Sheffield, a highly intellectual hut modest mesmeric experimentalist, ..."

6. Local Self-government Un-mystified: A Vindication of Common Sense, Human by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1857)
"Men like these, and not those "mob orators " whose importance it is convenient to magnify in this Manifesto, are the real local obstructives, everywhere, ..."

7. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"In a third Punch bids schoolmaster Northcote to take down not the words, but something else of the obstructives. Commenting on the twenty-six ..."

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