Meaning of apertive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Causing the body to open; dissolving blockages or having a purgative or diuretic effect.
2. Pertaining to or using an aperture; apertural.
3. Tending to open.

Examples

“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.”

“From the apertive field, equivalent magnetic currents are obtained using the principle of equivalence.”

“Prefractures are weak or apertive when the prefixed vowel has a greater closure formed by the tongue or lips than the original vowel, so that the result is a progressive opening.”

“Eberhart is a philosopher-poet whose avowed ambition is “to open/ Poetry to apertive speculation.””

“I was imbued with an amorphous sense of capability — but that word makes little sense to me. It was a sense of apertive aptness.”

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