单词 | comfortive |
释义 | † ˈcomfortive, a. and n. Obs. Also 6 con-. [irreg. f. comfort v. + -ive; comfort- being treated as the L. ppl. stem, as in abort-ive, assert-ive.] = comfortative. A. adj.
1377–1400Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 213 Companable and confortatyf [MS. C. confortif]. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. v. 63 Lete wysedome than be to the[e] comfortyfe. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 385 Cordial and comfortive remedies. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 100. B. n.
1584Leycesters Commonw. (1641) 34, I muse why hee chose rather to make her away by open violence then by some Italian confortive. 1588Greene Alcida Wks. (Grosart) IX. 94 Precious comfortives to incourage her champion. 1593― Mamillia ii. Wks. II. 231 Not a comfortive to lengthen her life, but a corasive to shorten her dayes. |

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