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Adjective
aborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)
- (obsolete) abortive from the first.
1639, Thomas Fuller, The historie of the holy warre, page 272:Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant.
References
- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 1975, Vol. 1 p. 6
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