sputative

English

Adjective

sputative (comparative more sputative, superlative most sputative)

1. Inclined to spit; spitting very much.
   • a. 1639, Henry Wotton, letter to Doctor C.

     I could pick out any counsell to allay that sputative Symptome which yet remaineth upon me from my obstructions of the Splene

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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