aborsive

English

Adjective

aborsive (comparative more aborsive, superlative most aborsive)

1. (obsolete) abortive from the first.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The historie of the holy warre, page 272:

     Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant.

References

• Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 1975, Vol. 1 p. 6

Anagrams

• overbias