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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

incisif

Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting;

hence,

sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting; trenchant.

“An incisive, high voice.”

G. Eliot.

And her

incisive

smile accrediting
That treason of false witness in my blush.

Mrs. Browning.

(Anat.)

Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor;

as, the

incisive

bones, the premaxillaries

Adj.

Having the quality of cutting or separating the superficial part of any thing.

Incisive teeth, in animals, are the fore teeth, the cutters.