expulsive
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Etymology
Origin of expulsive
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French expulsive (feminine) < Medieval Latin expulsīvus. See expulsion, -ive
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In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017
Doing regulates both of these, and the "expulsive power of a new affection" settles nearly every problem by displacement.
From The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by Alexander, John L.
"The expulsive power of a new affection" is not merely a happy phrase; it is a fact in every day life.
From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Jackson, Josephine A.
Excessive respiratory movements in which at first the expansive efforts of the thoracic muscles, afterwards the expulsive efforts of the abdominal wall, are most violent.
From Great Testimony against scientific cruelty by Coleridge, Stephen
It was clear that I had not yet reached the age of the grand expulsive passion which ignores partage.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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