allective

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin allectīvus (“that allures”).

Noun

allective (plural allectives)

1. (obsolete) An allurement.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:

     disease that will not yield to the allectives of cordials and perfumes

Adjective

allective (comparative more allective, superlative most allective)

1. (obsolete) Alluring.
   • 1588, G[abriel] H[arvey], “[Greenes Memoriall; Or Certaine Funerall Sonnets.] Sonnet XVII. His Exhortation to Atonement and Love.”, in J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Fovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets, […] (Miscellaneous Tracts Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n., published 1870], →OCLC, page 77:

     Magnes and many thinges attractive are, / But nothing ſo allective under ſkyes, / As that ſame dainty amiable ſtarre, / That none but griſly mouth of hell defyes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “allective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• vellicate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al.leːkˈtiː.u̯e/, [älːʲeːkˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al.lekˈti.ve/, [älːekˈt̪iːve]

Adjective

allēctīve

1. vocative singular masculine of allēctīvus