apertive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to or using an aperture; apertural.
noun
A substance that can be used medicinally for its apertive effect.
Example Sentences
- "Both its root and seeds are hydragogeous, and very apertive, and therefuore usefull in hydroptical and watry diseases."
- "Oppression and stopping at Brest and Stomach. Though very few live when they come to these things, yet here and there one makes a shift to creep over this and many other threatning signes; but you must not goe about to cure this as you doe other stoppings in the stomach, as by squills oximells, bomits, but by apertive medicines as this:"
- "The wine made from this sap is said to be apertive, and detersive."
- "I have found it in the waters of Hornhausen, which owe to this salt their apertive and diuretic properties."
- "In this part the author leaves the stylus method and passes on to the interference method, which is very valuable because it can resolve scratches down to a width of about 0.00002" or 0.00003", provided that a high apertive microscope objective is used."
- "Seasat was launched in June 1978 and carries a synthetic apertive radar."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin