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sative - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sative'

English

Alternative forms

* (both obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • (label) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
  • * 1599 , Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner , P4b:
  • Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles.
  • * 1664 , (John Evelyn), (third edition, 1679), page 2:
  • These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial.
  • * 1725 , Bradley’s Family Dictionary , “Pine”:
  • The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative .

    References

    * '' VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed.), part ii (S–Sh; 1914), page 124/1, “ †Sa·tive, ''a. ” ----