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Torive vs Tortive - What's the difference?

torive | tortive |

As a verb torive

is (obsolete) to rive in pieces; rend.

As an adjective tortive is

twisted, wreathed.

torive

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To rive in pieces; rend.

    • tortive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • twisted, wreathed
  • *c. 1602 -- , Act I, Scene III
  • *:As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap
  • *:Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
  • *:Tortive and errant from his course of growth.