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pulsive, a. Now rare.|ˈpʌlsɪv|
[f. L. puls-, ppl. stem of pell-ĕre to drive, impel + -ive.]
1. Having the quality of driving or impelling; constraining, compelling; impulsive; propulsive.
1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. iii, What I here speake is forced from my lips By the pulsive straine of conscience. a1687Petty Treat. Naval Philos. i. i. §85 The Tractive and Pulsive forces upon swimming Bodies. 188.R. G. H[ill] Voices in Solitude 83 The whirl of the wheels went on at length With the pulsive strain of their started strength.
†2. Beating or throbbing as the heart, etc. Obs.
1611J. Taylor (Water P.) Coriat's Commend. Wks. ii. 91/1 Such a straine That shall euen cracke my pulsiue pia mater In warbling thy renowne by land and water. 1630― Descr. Eng. Poetry ibid. 248/2 In end my pulsiue braine no Art affoords, To mint or stamp, or forge new coyned words.
3. Making a beating or throbbing sound.
1960‘W. Haggard’ Closed Circuit x. 123 He knew a band, quite a small one, quiet and properly pulsive. 1969G. Macbeth War Quartet 43 In wave On gathered wave of pulsive thumping, wings Grazed overhead. |