altercative

English

Etymology

See altercation.

Adjective

altercative (comparative more altercative, superlative most altercative)

1. (rare) Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
   • 1731, Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, London: J. Roberts, Act II, Scene 7, p. 30, footnote z,^[1]

     I know some of the Commentators have imagined, that Mr. Dryden, in the Altercative Scene between Cleopatra and Octavia […] is much beholden to our Author.

   • 1903, E. Nesbit, “Rounding Off a Scene” in The Literary Sense, New York and London: Macmillan, p. 14,^[2]

     His cab, delayed by a red newspaper cart, jammed in altercative contact with a dray full of brown barrels, paused in Cannon Street.

Related terms

• altercation

Translations

characterized by wrangling

• Portuguese: altercador, altercante
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “altercative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)