▪ I. † corsive, a.1 and n. Obs.
Forms: 6–7 corsive, 7 cor'sive, coarsive, cor'zive.
[A syncopated form of corrĕsive, corrosive.]
A. adj. = corrosive a. (lit. and fig.)
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 25 There is no sorrowe..but continuance of time may assuage the bitternes therof, and consume the corsive eating of the same. 1610 B. Jonson Alch. i. iii, Your cor'siue waters. |
B. n.
1. = corrosive n. 2.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 76 b, Surgions lay Corsiues to any wounde, to eate out the dead-flesh. 1603 Drayton Bar. Wars iv. xiv, Who still apply'd strong Cor'sives to the wound. 1640 Brome Sparagus Gard. i. v, Sharpe incisions, searings, and cruel Corsives. |
2. fig. = corrosive n. 3.
| 1564 Becon Flower Godly Prayers Prayers (1844) 69 Let the law be no corsive to his conscience. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xii, That which is their greatest corsiue, they are in continual suspition, feare, and distrust. 1669 Cokaine Poems 112 So old Petronius Arbiter applied Corsives unto the age he did deride. |
▪ II. † ˈcorsive, a.2 Obs.—0
[app. f. F. corsu (corsy) with suffix change: see -ive.]
= corsy, corpulent.
| 1530 Palsgr. 308/2 Corcyfe, corpsu, corpsue. Corsyfe, to full of fatnesse. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Corsu..corsiue, grosse, fleshy. |