adv. rare. [f. CURTATE + -IVE + -LY.] In a shortened or clipt manner.
1826. G. S. Faber, Diff. Romanism (1853), 326, note. Through this dexterous alternation of quoting and suppressing Ambrose, as thus curtatively exhibited, appears [etc.].
adv. rare. [f. CURTATE + -IVE + -LY.] In a shortened or clipt manner.
1826. G. S. Faber, Diff. Romanism (1853), 326, note. Through this dexterous alternation of quoting and suppressing Ambrose, as thus curtatively exhibited, appears [etc.].