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† gigantive, a. Obs. [Badly f. L. gigant- giant + -ive.] Mistake for, or synonym of, gigantine.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 The walls are cut into Gygantive Images. Ibid. 159 His gigantive shape [1677 reads gigantick; elsewhere (p. 149) Herbert has gigantine]. 1656Heylin Journeys vii. 91 What minded King Lewis to make his father of so gigantive a stature, I cannot tell. |