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English
Etymology
Latin glutinativus: compare French glutinatif.
Adjective
glutinative (comparative more glutinative, superlative most glutinative)
- (obsolete) Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative
1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 378:The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesedics, if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions , troches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, & using outwardly, aftringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, & c.
1835, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, page 393:That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.
1887 August 6, Eriphyle R. Whiting, “Jellies”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 5, number 7, page 167:To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.
1909, Ward's Automobile Topics, page 792:Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.
1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 28:Both ideal cases, whether the expression of grammatical meanings is extremely glutinative or extremely cumulative, are easy to analyse: grammatical meanings are either expressed by respective segments, or by one segment which is not further analysable.
2009, Edward Deering Mansfield, Memoirs of Daniel Drake, page 200:This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.
Usage notes
Modern works use the term agglutinative instead.