VINDICATIVE

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.

2.
a.

Revengeful; vindictive. [Obs.] Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. Bacon. -- Vin"di*ca*tive*ness, n.