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repulsive, a. and n.|rɪˈpʌlsɪv|
[a. F. répulsif, -ive (14th c.), or f. repulse v. + -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Having the character of repelling; driving or forcing back; returning a sound; resisting moisture, etc.
c1611Chapman Iliad xvi. 66 For the repulsiue hand of Diomed doth not spend His raging darts there. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 111 To the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 560 To..bathe unwet their oily forms, and dwell, With feet repulsive on the dimpling well. 1810Crabbe Borough i. 132 Fences are..placed around, (With tenters tipp'd) a strong repulsive bound. c1815Moore Irish Melodies Poet. Wks. II. 146 And with rude repulsive shock Hurls her from the beetling rock.
b. Const. of or to (the thing repelled).
1720Pope Iliad xxi. 192 Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, The desolation of the spot was repulsive to his wishes. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 32 The spiritual and temporal authorities are distinct,..and both repulsive of European intercourse.
2. Physics. Of the nature of, characterized by, repulsion. (Opposed to attractive.)
1704Newton Optics (1721) 363 A repulsive Force by which they fly from one another. 1770Priestley in Phil. Trans. LX. 198 The balls separated..; and, continuing in a repulsive state, appeared to be electrified negatively. 1830Kater & Lardner Mech. vi. 69 The space around each atom of a body, through which this repulsive influence extends, is generally limited. 1885Watson & Burbury Math. The. Electr. & Magn. I. 46 If the mutual force had been attractive instead of repulsive..the expression for the work done would be the same as that for the repulsive force, but with reversed sign.
3. Repellent; intended or tending to repel by denial, coldness of manner, etc.
1598Chapman Blinde Beg. Alexandria Wks. 1873 I. 22 Be not discouraged that my daughter.., Like a well fortified and loftie tower, Is so repulsiue and vnapt to yeelde. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 414 Nothing could be more completely cold, distant, and even repulsive to me, than the conduct and manner of ministers in this and in every other point. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xx, She suddenly raised herself, and with a repulsive gesture and a countenance of forced serenity, said [etc.]. c1815Jane Austen Persuasion vi, Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth. 1843S. Wilberforce in Ashwell Life (1879) I. vi. 233, I could not..receive it in silence, because this would seem cold, unfriendly and repulsive. 1863R. Queen Heather Lintie (ed. 2) 43, I ne'er wi' ither bairns gallanted Wha looks repulsive on me slanted.
4. Repellent to the mind; disgusting.
1816Bentham Chrestom. 314 Presenting itself to the eye of the mind in the repulsive character of an absolutely dark spot. 1838Emerson Addr., Lit. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 211 The repulsive plants that are native in the swamp. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xv. (1878) 317 There was something so repulsive about the woman. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vi. 199 Balzac..is often repulsive, and not unfrequently dull.
Comb.1855G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce ix. 125 A hard⁓featured and repulsive-looking woman.
B. n.
†1. A repelling medicine or application.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 17 Whether repulsives may be used? 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xvi. 363 Repulsives or Repellers..are opposed to Attractives.
†2. A repelling or counteracting force. Obs. rare.
1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 59 God having..placed in nature ballances and repulsives as well as insolences and pestilences of assaults on harmony.
Hence reˈpulsively adv., in a repelling manner.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. vii. 54 She..repulsively, as I may say, quitting my assisting hand, hurried into the house. 1840New Monthly Mag. LVIII. 58, I was prevented by the lady, who, putting out her hand repulsively, said, ‘Oh! don't send him to me’. |