glutinative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin glutinativus: compare French glutinatif.

Adjective[edit]

glutinative (comparative more glutinative, superlative most glutinative)

  1. (obsolete) Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative
    • 1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 378:
      The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesedics, if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions , troches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, & using outwardly, aftringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, & c.
    • 1835, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, page 393:
      That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.
    • 1887 August 6, Eriphyle R. Whiting, “Jellies”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 5, number 7, page 167:
      To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.
    • 1909, Ward's Automobile Topics, page 792:
      Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.
    • 1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 28:
      Both ideal cases, whether the expression of grammatical meanings is extremely glutinative or extremely cumulative, are easy to analyse: grammatical meanings are either expressed by respective segments, or by one segment which is not further analysable.
    • 2009, Edward Deering Mansfield, Memoirs of Daniel Drake, page 200:
      This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.

Usage notes[edit]

Modern works use the term agglutinative instead.