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Webster's English Dictionary

offensive

a. [Cf. F. offensif. See Offend.] ()

1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. ()

2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. (Bacon.)

3. Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. ()

League offensive and defensive, a leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked. ()

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n. The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive. ()

To take the offensive, To act on the offensive, To go on the offensive, to be the attacking party; to initiate hostilities. ()