ABORTIVE, something come before its due time, or before it has arriv'd at its Maturity and Persedion. See ABORTION.

F. Jerom Florentius has an express Treatise of the Baptism of Abortives, or abortive Children. His Aim is to shew that an Abortive may, and ought to be baptiz'd, at what Time or Term soever it come into the World ; by reason the precise Time when the Fœetus begins to be animated is not known. There are several curious and uncommon Things in this Work, which is intitled Homo dubius, sive de baptismo Abortivorum. Lugd. i674. 4to.



ABORTIVE Velom, is that made of the Skin of an abortive Calf. See VELOM.