internecive
English
Etymology
Latin internecivus.
Adjective
internecive (not comparable)
- internecine
- 1819, Sydney Smith, "The Game Laws", in Edinburgh Review
- Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas; - an internecive war between the game-keepers and the marauders of game.
- 1819, Sydney Smith, "The Game Laws", in Edinburgh Review
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 internecive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Adjective
internecīve
- vocative masculine singular of internecīvus
References
- “internecive”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- internecive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette