tortive
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, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III
- As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap
- Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
- Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III