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Webster 1913 Edition
Subsultive
Sub-sul′tive
,Adj.
Subsultory.
[R.]
Berkley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Subsultive
SUBSULT'IVE
Definition 2024
subsultive
subsultive
English
Adjective
subsultive (comparative more subsultive, superlative most subsultive)
- Moving in bounds or leaps; subsultory.
- George Berkeley
- 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 […]
- George Berkeley