See Also: papilla(dictionary)
Papilla(medicine)
Papilla(health)
papilla pili(medicine)
papilla parotidea(medicine)
papilla of breast(medicine)
papilla of Vater(medicine)
papilla mammae(medicine)
papilla lingualis(medicine)
papilla lacrimalis(medicine)

abusive (iou) and Papilla (health)


abusive (iou)



abusive adjective. M16.
[Old & mod. French abusif, -ive or late Latin abusivus, formed as Abuse verb: see -IVE.]
Misapplied; improper; Rhetoric catachrestic. arch. M16.
W. Hamilton The Reproductive Imagination (or Conception, in the abusive language of the Scottish philosophers).
Full of abuses. arch. L16.
T. Nashe The abusive enormities of..our times.
Employing insulting language; scurrilous. E17.
Deceitful. E-M17.
S. Daniel Th' abusive Shews of Sense.
Given to misusing. Only in M17.
abusively adverb M16.
abusiveness noun M17.

Papilla (health)


A small nipple-shaped projection.