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contractive, a.|kənˈtræktɪv|
[f. L. contract- ppl. stem (as above) + -ive.]
Having the property of contracting; producing, or tending to produce, contraction; of the nature of contraction.
1624Bargrave Serm. 27 Wee are all borne with this contractive quality of selfe-love and interest. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 139 Their Systole or contractive motion. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. i. 38 Violent pains..sometimes pungent, by and by Contractive, or Spasmodick. 1708J. Keill Anim. Secretion 97 This Contractive or Elastick Power..is not equal in all Bodies. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. I. viii. §10 The contractive Faculty of the Heart. 1867Denison Astron. without Math. 116 But this contractive force..is only half the other separating or differential force.
Hence † contractively adv. = next.
1648T. Hill Best & Worst of Paul 15 Some tell us Jeremiah and Zachary, written contractively in the Hebrew, are the same. |