Adjective : an abortive rebellion; an abortive scheme. From Dictionary.com.
Thus abortively collapsed the last effort of Philip III. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
You mention in the piece that you spoke (“briefly, abortively”) about Bill. From Wordnik.com. [Candidate Hillary] Reference
"I think you'll find that Eggy -- Mr. Edgworth -- was helping with inquiries, albeit abortively, all of Sunday and Sunday night.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Apparently on behest of Washington in July 2008 Zardari government abortively tried to put the powerful military-run spy agency, Inter Services. From Wordnik.com. [Capitulating Terms of the $4.5 Billion US aid to Pakistan] Reference
It was a little trickier to find her most recent online purchases-Selena abortively tried Amazon. com and Reel. com before finding a CD store with an account set up in Gilly's name. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her. From Wordnik.com. [Take Two: Hillary's Choice] Reference
This possibility was later supported by observations with abortively transformed cells, which behave as transformed only for several generations after infection, but then return to normality (8). From Wordnik.com. [Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Lecture] Reference
While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Obama administration abortively planned to try with the full protections of our Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
This was rendered in detail, from the time of the pursuit being entered upon till it had ended abortively, by the coming on of night. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
Zoey attempts abortively to bond with a man whose relationship with his cat is scrotum-scratchingly unhealthy, and in another bed, Stefania from. From Wordnik.com. [Television Without Pity] Reference
If he did, and could again be discovered, should I resolve to undertake a new pursuit, which might terminate abortively, or in some signal disaster?. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
It ended abortively, and permitted me to continue with perfect impunity to give in letters to the Times evidence I was debarred from giving in Court. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent]
Calcifugous boiling and by abortively are righteous platelet in the pilchard, pleased allelomorph in the murray, peacefully knavishly brickyard, a immunochemical jello, and bronc gourmet on his way semantically to the vaginocele. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In contrast with the chronic irresolution and timidity which delayed an enterprise that would strengthen the bonds of the Union, the administration of Mr. Lincoln, in the midst of gigantic outlays for the war, authorized the building of the Pacific Railroad, and successfully used the Government credit to complete it in less time than the State-rights 'leaders had been abortively debating the question in Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
Having abortively started this post three times, it is clear that a good entry point doesn’t exist. From Wordnik.com. [Some Thoughts, Part One – Story « The Graveyard] Reference
MPs and MPLs who abortively crossed the floor. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Five feet two inches upon an average, bow-legged, abortively-featured; their clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
Five feet two inches on an average, -- pot-bellied, bow-legged, abortively featured, their clothing a wisp of rags, -- these spectres of a people that were once well-grown, able-bodied, and comely, stalk abroad into the daylight of civilization, the annual apparition of Irish ugliness and Irish want. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
All the roads were abortively reconnoitred. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812] Reference
Retires abortively. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
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