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pulˈsific, a. Now rare. [f. L. puls-us pulse n.1 + -fic.] Producing or causing the pulse or pulsation of the arteries; also, characterized by pulsation, pulsatory, throbbing.
1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. viii. xix. 314 Cruell symptomes doe follow, as pulsifique paine, a feaver, restlessnesse. Ibid. xx. vii. 772 The oppression of the vitall and pulsifick faculty by a cloud of grosse vapours. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §17. 161 A pulsifick corporeal quality in the substance of the heart itself, is very unphilosophical and absurd. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 425 The pulsific Motion of the Blood continually thrusting on. 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Pulsific, that which causes or excites pulsation. 1897in Syd. Soc. Lex. |