invectīvus, a, um, adj. [invectio],
scolding , abusive , reproachful , full of invectives (postclass.): oratio acer, et invectiva, Amm. 21, 10, 7: volumen, id. 22, 14, 2.—Subst.: in-vectīva , ōrum, n., invectives , abuse : quaedam in principem, Amm. 28, 1, 20.