pulsive

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pulsive (comparative more pulsive, superlative most pulsive)

  1. Tending to compel; compulsory.
    • 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. [], London: [] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] [], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      What I here speak is forced from my lips / By the pulsive strain of conscience.

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