altercative

== English == === Etymology === See altercation. === Adjective === altercative (comparative more altercative, superlative most altercative) (rare) Characterized by altercation. 1731, Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, London: J. Roberts, Act II, Scene 7, p. 30, footnote z,[1] I know some of the Commentators have imagined, that Mr. Dryden, in the Altercative Scene between Cleopatra and Octavia […] is much beholden to our Author. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “altercative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.