Adjective: ursine
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ursine |
| Superlative | most ursine |
Sample Sentences
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The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town. [1832, Godfrey Mundy, chapter VI, in Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, volume 1, London: John Murray, page 320:]
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[…] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […] [1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:]
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[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda. [2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA77]
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2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37
Adjectives inflected like ursine
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine. See: Latin Adjectives '
ursīnus'.