discussive

English

Etymology

discuss +‎ -ive

Noun

discussive (plural discussives)

1. (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.

Adjective

discussive (comparative more discussive, superlative most discussive)

1. (medicine, dated) Able or tending to discuss, or disperse, tumors or coagulated matter.
2. (dated) Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
   • a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, Discourses concerning sin […] :

     A kind of peremptory and discussive voice.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “discussive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)