† cessiveadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of a yielding quality.
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yielding1577
cessive1678
unresisting1691
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. i. x. 168 Softness by Sulphur is Cessive, but Softness by Argentrive is Extensive.
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adj.1678- to scare a person silly
- to scare a person stupid
- to scare out
- to scare out of one's senses
- to scare seven bells out of a person
- to scare someone's daylights out
- to scare the daylight out of
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- to scare the lights out of
- to scare the lights out of a person
- to scare the lights out of a thing
- to scare the liver and lights out of
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- to scare the living daylight out of
- to scare the living daylights out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
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- to scare up
- to scare — bells out of
- to scarp away, down
- to scarper the letty