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OP Just goes to show something or other. I automatically analysed revulsed as being from a verb revulse. Onelook refers to dictionary.com and Websters for revulse and they give the meaning pull back with force and ascribe it to Cowper (the poet? no dates given).
When I googled revulse and then revulsed there were about 8 or 9 times as many examples of revulsed. Using Onelook I found that revulsed is listed in AHD and Merriam-Websters as an adjective meaning "affected with revulsion". MW dates it back to 1934, but that doesn't make me like it any better.
Of course in a print dicitionary you would see the adjective revulsed if you tried to look up an almost non-existent verb revulse.
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Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Odd Press IV Bingley 11/14/01 02:38 AM Re: Odd Press IV RhubarbCommando 11/14/01 04:09 PM Re: Odd Press IV Faldage 11/14/01 08:49 PM Re: Odd Press IV wwh 11/17/01 01:43 AM Re: Odd Press IV Bingley 11/17/01 01:20 PM Re: revulsion wow 11/17/01 03:04 PM Re: revulsion plutarch 11/17/01 03:20 PM Re: revulse tsuwm 11/17/01 04:01 PM Re: revulse wwh 11/17/01 04:19 PM Re: revulse tsuwm 11/17/01 05:04 PM Re: revulse Wordwind 11/18/01 12:01 AM Re: revulse wwh 11/18/01 12:49 AM Re: revulse Bingley 11/19/01 06:18 AM Re: revulse Wordwind 11/19/01 09:33 AM
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