enforcive

English

Etymology

From enforce +‎ -ive.

Adjective

enforcive (comparative more enforcive, superlative most enforcive)

1. Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
   • 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

     But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties.

Derived terms

• enforcively

Further reading

• “enforcive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.