† ˈstrangulative, a. Obs. rare.
[f. L. type *strangulātīvus, f. strangulāre: see strangle v. and -ative.]
That strangles or stops respiration.
| 1647 A. Ross Myst. Poet. xi. (1648) 266 Medea is the name of a poysonable herb..called..in English dogs-bane; but our dogs-bane hath no such strangulative quality. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. i. ii. xiii. 262 One sort of Ephemerum is lethal and strangulative. |