disturbative

adj

disturbative

adj

Etymology From disturbāt-, past participial stem of disturbō, + -ive. By surface analysis, disturb + -ative.

1

Archaic Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.

  • It is not to say that all crowds are disturbative, or woe betide fashionable assemblies; but the element of disturbance is always at hand wherever a crowd is collected.1859, Dudley Costello, “Gurney; or, Two Fortunes”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 46, page 102:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.