depulsory
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]depulsory (comparative more depulsory, superlative most depulsory)
- Driving or thrusting away; averting.
- 1609, Philemon Holland, The Roman historie […] , translation of original by Ammianus Marcellinus:
- Making supplication […] unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices.
References
[edit]- “depulsory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.