a. and sb. [f. L. type extractīv-us, f. extrahĕre (see EXTRACT v.). Cf. F. extractif, -ive.]
A. adj.
† 1. Tending to draw out; esp. of a plaster or drug having the power of drawing out (anything noxious). Const. of. Obs.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 363/2. Then make an extractiue Playster spreade vvith Copperrooste.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 191. The common and ordinary Reeds haue an extractiue or drawing faculty.
1750. trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 23. Of which Instruments, the one is hot, digestive, and extractive or drying of the Humid.
2. Pol. Econ. Extractive industry: an industry (e.g., agriculture, mining, fisheries, etc.) that is concerned with obtaining natural productions.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. I. ii. § 3. 42. Labour employed in producing materials, on which industry is to be afterwards employed. This is, in many cases, a labour of mere appropriation; extractive industry, as it has been called.
1888. Scot. Leader, 9 April, 5. Land used for the purposes of extractive industry.
1890. T. Child, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 921/1. They too abound … in what the French call the extractive industries.
3. Capable of being extracted; of the nature of an extract. Cf. EXTRACT sb. 2. Extractive principle: see quot. 1875.
1789. J. Keir, Dict. Chem., 27/1. Distillation frees the acid from much of this extractive substance.
1796. Kirwan, Manures (1802), 53. He found 1 lb. of it [a soil] to contain from 20 to 30 grains of extractive matter.
1816. Accum, Chem. Tests (1818), 186. Separating the extractive acid, and colouring matter from wine.
1875. Ure’s Dict. Arts, II. 323. Fourcroy … supposed that they [extracts] had all a common basis; which he called the extractive principle.
B. sb.
1. An extractive substance: see A. 3.
1844–57. G. Bird, Urin. Deposits (ed. 5), 117. The physiological origin of sulphur extractive.
1847. Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 483. The separation [of the viscous liquor] into … albumen, aqueous extractive, and alcoholic extractive.
1854. Bushnan, in Circ. Sc. (c. 1865), II. 21/1. It is … nothing more than a species of animal extractive.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal. (ed. 2), 20/1. A food … containing, in addition to other meat extractives, the whole of the soluble albumen of the meat.
2. ‘The brown insoluble mass of doubtful composition, left after the preparation of vegetable extracts’ (Wagstaffe).
1807. T. Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 367. The solution … approached nearer to the vegetable matter called extractive than tannin.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 637. The substances held in solution are chiefly sugar, syrup, gluten, gum, and extractive.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 45. 442. There are in a hundred parts of wheaten flour about seventy-two of starch and extractive.
