fruitive
English
Etymology
See fruition and -ive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹuː.ɪ.tɪv/
Adjective
fruitive (comparative more fruitive, superlative most fruitive)
- (obsolete) enjoying; possessing
- 1648, Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love, published 1660:
- to whet our longings for fruitive (or experimental ) knowledge
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fruitive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)