allective
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin allectīvus (“that allures”).
Noun
allective (plural allectives)
- (obsolete) An allurement.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
Adjective
allective (comparative more allective, superlative most allective)
- (obsolete) Alluring.
- 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], →OCLC, page 77:
- Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “allective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /al.leːkˈtiː.u̯e/, [älːʲeːkˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /al.lekˈti.ve/, [älːekˈt̪iːve]
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) allēctīve
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