protrusiveadj.

1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 172 Though it add nothing to the elasticity of the Air, seeing it has a pressure and protrusive force in it.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. iv. 49 The Protrusive Motion of the Bowels.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. ix. 308 The blood has a three-fold motion,—fluidity, common to all liquors,—protrusive, from the impulse of the heart and arteries,—and fermentative.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 197 The protrusive force of the surrounding muscles.

a1855 W. P. Dewees in J. King Amer. Eclectic Obstetr. (1855) 316 When the pains are powerfully protrusive, and the os uteri, though pretty amply dilated, yet not sufficiently so to permit the parietal protuberances to pass freely through it.

1976 Evolution 30 730/1 Stiffening of genioglossals..would provide the tongue with a temporary ‘skeletal support’, improving its..protrusive and prey capture functions.

1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 329 The masseter loses adductive force upon closure but gains protrusive force.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 178 A true English heart breathes, calm and strong, through the whole business; not boisterous, protrusive.

1895 Manitoba Morning Free Press 7 May 4/4 Mr. Saunders was of a very gentle and retiring disposition... Had he been more protrusive his name would have been more widely known.

1970 G. Jackson Let. Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 45 There has been one white man only to go through this O Wing experience without..allowing himself to succumb to the madness of ribald, protrusive racism.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. iv. 220 The ‘Austrian lip’,—protrusive under-jaw, with heavy lip disinclined to shut.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. vii. 120 The chin protrusive and the cervical vertebræ a trifle more curved.

1920 T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec 14 A lustreless protrusive eye Stares from the protozoic slime.

1987 R. Ellmann Oscar Wilde iv. 89 The main physical effect of mercury on Wilde was to turn his slightly protrusive teeth black.

1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 681/1 To him thou, with sniffing charity, wilt protrusively proffer thy Handlamp.

1906 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 256 Repeated vistas of little brick-faced and protrusively door-stepped houses.

1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Dec. b1 The buildings were all incredibly dilapidated, old bricks peeking out protrusively.

1811 L. Hunt in Examiner 19 May 315/2 She..might become a pleasant actress, if she could get rid of a certain uncouth ambling and protrusiveness in her motions.

1926 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 7 Mar. c6/6 The entrance to be one that invites in a friendly way, not repels by its protrusiveness.

2005 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 25 May d8 Watch as an American woman pops her eyeballs out of her sockets to unprecedented levels of protrusiveness.