See Also: Sulphocyanic(medicine)

inventive (iou) and Sulphocyanic (medicine)


inventive (iou)



inventive adjective. LME.
[French inventif, -ive or medieval Latin inventivus, formed as INVENT: see -IVE.]
Having the faculty of invention; original, apt, or quick in contriving or devising. Also foll. by of. LME.
G. Greene He had been too inventive; he had to draw the line..between what was real..and unreal.
Characterized by invention; produced by or showing original contrivance. E17.
J. Ruskin Great Art..must be inventive, that is, be produced by the imagination.
inventively adverb M19.
inventiveness noun M17.

Sulphocyanic (medicine)


sulphocyanic
<chemistry> Of, pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a sulphacid, HSCN, analogous to cyanic acid, and obtained as a colourless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.

See: Sulphur, Cyanic.

Source: Websters Dictionary