a. Obs. [f. FORCE sb.1 -IVE.] = FORCIBLE.
c. 1600. Day, Begg. Bednall Gr., IV. iii. (1881), 100.
| My Sword shall justifie that first by bribes | |
| And then by forcive means he would have forc’d | |
| My Neece unto his lust. |
1634. W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp., I. xii. I will use no forcive arguments to perswade any, but leave them to the relation.
1651. Davenant, Gondibert, Pref. Though in Courts and Cities great men fence often with her [i.e., Justice], and with a forcive sleight put by her sword; yet when she retires to Camps, she is in a posture not only to punish the offences of particular Greatnesse, but of injurious Nations.
