subsultive
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]subsultive (comparative more subsultive, superlative most subsultive)
- Moving in bounds or leaps; subsultory.
- c. 1746-1747, George Berkeley, To the Publisher (unnamed piece, exact date and addressee unknown)
- This sort of subsultive motion is ever accounted the most dangerous.
- 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand:
- The leech (Hirudo medicinalis), toads, frogs, with their barometrical croak! croak! abound in the swamps. These subsultive reptiles do not differ from the species in Europe […]
- c. 1746-1747, George Berkeley, To the Publisher (unnamed piece, exact date and addressee unknown)