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▪ I. † corsive, a.1 and n. Obs.
Forms: 6–7 corsive, 7 cor'sive, coarsive, cor'zive.
[A syncopated form of corrĕsive, corrosive.]
A. adj. = corrosive a. (lit. and fig.)
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 25 There is no sorrowe..but continuance of time may assuage the bitternes therof, and consume the corsive eating of the same. 1610B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, Your cor'siue waters.
B. n.
1. = corrosive n. 2.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 76 b, Surgions lay Corsiues to any wounde, to eate out the dead-flesh. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars iv. xiv, Who still apply'd strong Cor'sives to the wound. 1640Brome Sparagus Gard. i. v, Sharpe incisions, searings, and cruel Corsives.
2. fig. = corrosive n. 3.
1564Becon Flower Godly Prayers Prayers (1844) 69 Let the law be no corsive to his conscience. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xii, That which is their greatest corsiue, they are in continual suspition, feare, and distrust. 1669Cokaine Poems 112 So old Petronius Arbiter applied Corsives unto the age he did deride.
▪ II. † ˈcorsive, a.2 Obs.—0
[app. f. F. corsu (corsy) with suffix change: see -ive.]
= corsy, corpulent.
1530Palsgr. 308/2 Corcyfe, corpsu, corpsue. Corsyfe, to full of fatnesse. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Corsu..corsiue, grosse, fleshy. |