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English
Etymology
From Latin torquere (“to twist”). Sometimes attributed to Shakespeare.
Adjective
tortive (comparative more tortive, superlative most tortive)
- Twisted; wreathed.
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:[K]nots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.