congressive
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective[edit]
congressive (comparative more congressive, superlative most congressive)
- Encountering, or coming together.
- congressive behavior
- congressive people
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- if it be understood of Sexes conjoined , all plants are Female ; and if of disjoined and congressive generation , there is no Male or Female in them at all
References[edit]
- “congressive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.