a. Obs. rare. [f. L. type *strangulātīvus, f. strangulāre: see STRANGLE v. and -ATIVE.] That strangles or stops respiration.
1647. A. Ross, Myst. Poet., xi. (1648), 266. Medea is the name of a poysonable herb … called … in English dogs-bane; but our dogs-bane hath no such strangulative quality.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., I. II. xiii. 262. One sort of Ephemerum is lethal and strangulative.
