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combustive, a.|kəmˈbʌstɪv|
[f. L. combūst- (see above) + -ive.]
†1. Med. Pertaining to a ‘combustion’ or burn.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 332 To make an excellent combustive oyntment. Take Lintseede oyle and oaten meale.
†2. Having the quality of causing combustion.
1653Gauden Hierasp. 20 Their beams and influences begin to grow malign, fiery and combustive. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 146 The light of the Sun is combustive or burning up. 1824Coleridge Rem. (1836) II. 411 Salt, sulphur, and mercury are equivalent to the combustive, the combustible, and the combust.
3. Pertaining to or characterized by combustion.
1858Greener Gunnery 45 Gases, at the instant of their combustive formation. 1880Mrs. C. Reade Brown Hand & White III. i. 24 A crackling noise..suggestive of combustive lucifers. |