divorcive
English
Etymology
divorce + -ive
Adjective
divorcive (comparative more divorcive, superlative most divorcive)
- (archaic) Having power to divorce; tending to divorce.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
- this divorcive law
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 divorcive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)