a. [f. COMBAT v. + -IVE.] Disposed or given to combat, fond of fighting, pugnacious.
a. 1834. Lamb, Lett. to Wordsw. (L.). His fine combative manner.
1877. Kinglake, Crimea (ed. 6), V. i. 115. The combative impulses.
1882. J. H. Blunt. Ref. Ch. Eng., II. 304. Ridley, combative to the last, wished to reply.
