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† ruˈbarbative, a. Obs.
Also 6 -if, 7 rew-.
[a. F. reubarbatif (Rabelais), obs. var. of rébarbatif, rebarbative.]
Crabbed, cross-grained.
The form may be due to association with rhubarb, to which quot. 1600 punningly alludes.
1600O. E. (M. Sutcliffe) Repl. Libel iii. i. 5 As appeereth by their Rubarbatif or as they call them expurgatorie indexes. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xxxvii. 441 The same rewbarbative and severely-grave looke of theires. 1631Dekker Match me in London iii. 32 A man were better to lye vnder the hands of a Hangman, than one of your rubarbatiue faces. |