solutive

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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin solutivus, from Latin solutus (the past participle of solvere) + -ive (from the Latin suffix -ivus). Compare French solutif.

Adjective

solutive (comparative more solutive, superlative most solutive)

  1. (rare) Tending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.
  2. loosening (of strictness of contractual terms), through gradual dissolution of binding obligations (as of a previously agreed-upon contract)
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      so abstersive , and opening , and solutive a drink as mead

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “solutive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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