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Definition of Expulsive
1. a. Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.
Definition of Expulsive
1. Adjective. Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expulsive
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Expulsive
1. Tending to expel. Origin: L. Ex-pello, pp. -pulsus, to drive out (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expulsive
Literary usage of Expulsive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Science of Elocution: The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in by S. S. Hamill (1886)
"2. Take a message and a token, to some distant friends of mine. EXERCISES Contrasting
Oral Orotund and Pure Tone in Die Effusive and expulsive ..."
2. Essentials of Public Speaking by Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (1910)
"expulsive Form. The expulsive is that Form in which the Force is applied abruptly
... To acquire a good expulsive Form the student should practice the vowel ..."
3. Obstetrics: a text-book for the use of students and practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1904)
"(2) Those in which, although the expulsive forces may be of normal strength,
abnormalities in the ... Dystocia due to Anomalies of the expulsive Forces. ..."
4. Orthophony; Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of by James Edward Murdoch, James Rush (1876)
"expulsive orotund" belongs appropriately to earnest or vehement declamation, ...
The third form of " expulsive orotund," is at once the impassioned and the ..."
5. The Principles and practice of obstetrics by Gunning S. Bedford (1868)
"Seat and Origin of tho expulsive Forces in Parturition—How these Force* arc
Modified—Spinal Cord—Its Influence—Parturition in part an Excito-motory Act— ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"So, too, in regard to the "show," as perfect, as it seemed to ше, and as abundant,
or nearly so; as occurs in the expulsive stage of most labours. ..."
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