ABORTIVE
\ɐbˈɔːtɪv], \ɐbˈɔːtɪv], \ɐ_b_ˈɔː_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of ABORTIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
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Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
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Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
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Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
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Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
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That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
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A fruitless effort or issue.
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A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
By Oddity Software
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Made from the skin of a still-born animal; as, abortive vellum.
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Rendering fruitless or ineffectual.
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Coming to naught; failing in its effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt.
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Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines.
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Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.
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That which is born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
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A fruitless effort or issue.
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A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion.
By Noah Webster.
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Born untimely: unsuccessful: producing nothing: rendering abortive. (Obs.).
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ABORTIVELY.
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ABORTIVENESS.
By Daniel Lyons
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ABORTIVELY.
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ABORTIVENESS.
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Brought forth prematurely; imperfect; unsuccessful.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. There is probably no direct agent of the kind.
By Robley Dunglison
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Incompletely developed.
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Abortifacient.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Cutting short the course of a disease.
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A disease or a lesion is said to be a., when, after having begun in the usual way, it suddenly disappears or stops short in its progress.
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In botany, an a. stamen is one that has no anther or only a rudimentary one; an a. flower is one that falls without leaving any trace of fecundation. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
