a. [f. L. contorsus, alleged variant of contortus (see CONTORT) + -IVE.] Of contorting quality or tendency.
1819. H. Busk, Vestriad, I. 500. His eye contorsive bent a thousand ways. Ibid. (1819), Dessert, 711. Or with scored viscera contorsive rue The deleterious trash that vintners brew.
