Glutinative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Glutinative is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative.
Meaning
(obsolete) Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative.
Example Sentences
This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.
That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.
Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.
To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include agglutinate, agglutinant, conglutinate, agglutinous, conglutinant, conglutinative.
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