a. rare. [f. L. abject- (see ABJECTION) + -IVE, as if from a L. *abjectīvus, not found.] Tending to lower or demoralize.
1865. Maj. Nicholls, in Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Sept., 11/2. We saw then … how abjective, in a moral sense, had been the terrible influence of these campaigns.
