abstersive
[ab-stur-siv]
adjective
Origin of abstersive
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Medieval Latin abstersīvus, equivalent to Latin absters(us), past participle of abstergēre (see abstergent) + -īvus -ive
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