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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Perturbative; having the property of perturbing.
  • noun A name once used by real and pretended believers in the divining-rod to indicate a hypothetical power assumed to reside in certain individuals whereby thet can exert a perturbing influence upon the motion of a swinging pendulum, etc.

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