Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vindicative

Vindicative (?; 277) , adjective

[Compare French vindicatif. Compare Vindictive.]

1.
Tending to vindicate; vindicating; as, a vindicative policy.
2.
Revengeful; vindictive. [Obsolete]
Vindicative persons live the life of witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate. — Bacon