discerptive

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English

Adjective

discerptive (comparative more discerptive, superlative most discerptive)

  1. Tending to separate or disunite parts.
    • 1861, Isaak August Dorne, History of the development of the doctrine of the Person of Christ:
      The Christology of Eutyches he deemed to be discerptive, because it did not concede to the humanity the capability of possessing the divine as its own

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for discerptive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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