irruptive, a.
(ɪˈrʌptɪv)
[f. as irrupt + -ive.]
Having the quality or character of bursting in; making, or tending to, irruption.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 58 Trodden out of sent, by the irruptiue ouer-trampling of the Romanes. 1794 Whitehouse Ode to Justice (T.), Ready to displode irruptive on his head. 1816 T. Busby Lucretius vi. Comment. xiii, By Thales and Democritus they [earthquakes] were attributed to the irruptive force of subterraneous winds. 1873 Burton Hist. Scot. I. i. 24 Masses of irruptive rock. |