Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Vindicative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vindicative \Vin"di*ca*tive\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. vindicatif.
Cf. {Vindictive}.]
1. Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative
policy.
2. Revengeful; vindictive. [Obs.]
Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who,
as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.
--Bacon.
-- {Vin"di*ca*tive*ness}, n.
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