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SOLUTIVE
Etymology
Adjective
solutive (comparative more solutive, superlative most solutive)
(rare) Tending to produce relaxation (as of the bowels); having laxative properties.
loosening (of strictness of contractual terms), through gradual dissolution of binding obligations (as of a previously agreed-upon contract)
Anagrams
• levitous, lives out, outlives, ovulites
Source: Wiktionary
Sol"u*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. solutif.]
Definition: Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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