Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Corrosive.
- noun A corrosive.
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- adjective obsolete
Corrosive . - noun medicine, obsolete A
corrosive . - noun obsolete Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil.
Etymologies
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Syncopated form of corrosive.
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Examples
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Nella versione sono queste segnate per lettere corsive.’
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
bilby commented on the word corsive
These, O you solitariness, may both endure,
And be a chirurgeon to find me a cure:
For this curst corsive eating my best rest,
Memory, sad memory in you once blessed,
But now most miserable with the weight
Of that which only shows love's strange deceit,
You are that cruel wound that inly wears
My soul, my body wasting into tears.
- Lady Mary Roth, 'Urania'.
July 28, 2009