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† deˈjective, a. Obs.
[f. L. dēject- ppl. stem (see deject ppl. a.) + -ive.]
1. Characterized by, or betokening, dejection, submission, or abasement.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) 160 They yeld [the city] with a dejective flag of truce. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. iv. §18 Humbling himselfe in a more dejectiue manner, then either his birth, or owne nature could well brooke.
2. Med. Causing evacuation, purgative.
1605Timme Quersit. i. vi. 23 It will be made both deiective and vomitive. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 45 Two purging medicaments, one a vomiting or ejective, the other dejective. |