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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pulsifick, adj. [e.m.E. pulsifique (1634), pulsifick, pulsific (1710), f. L. puls-us Puls(e n.] Producing or causing the pulsation of the arteries. —1611 Crim. Trials III 189.
The vital influence and pulsifick faculty of the heart which animated and circulated it is extinct
