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corsive ‎(comparative more corsive, superlative most corsive)

corsive ‎(plural corsives)

(medicine, obsolete) A corrosive.
(obsolete) Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.107:
  From commonwealths and cities I will descend to families, which have as many corsives and molestations, as frequent discontents as the rest.

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