Associations to the word «Portative»
Verb
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Wiktionary
PORTATIVE, adjective. (now) (rare) Portable. [from 14th c.]
PORTATIVE, adjective. (obsolete) Capable of holding up or carrying. [15th-19th c.]
PORTATIVE, noun. (now) (chiefly historical) A portative organ.
PORTATIVE ORGAN, noun. (music) A small pipe organ with one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.
PORTATIVE ORGANS, noun. Plural of portative organ
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.