adjective
rareCharacterized by separation; separative. Compare "disjunctive".
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Arderne's Treatises of Fistula in Ano. From post-classical Latin discretivus serving to distinguish, separative, discriminative from classical Latin discrēt-, past participial stem of discernere + -īvus.
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