a. Obs.; also estive. [ad. L. æstīv-us of summer, or heat; f. æst-us heat.] Of or belonging to summer; hot or burning.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 719. Frogs … are likewise ingendered out of the dust of the earth by warm, æstive, and Summer showers.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchie, III. 124. Auriga mounted in a chariot bright (Else styl’d Heniochus) receives his light In th’ Estive circle.
