different between tortive vs tortile

English

From Latin torquere (“to twist”). Sometimes attributed to Shakespeare.

tortive (comparative more tortive, superlative most tortive)

Twisted; wreathed.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene III
  As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap
  Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
  Tortive and errant from his course of growth.

Borrowed from Latin tortilis, from the participle stem of torque? (“twist, turn”).

tortile (comparative more tortile, superlative most tortile)

(rare) Twisted, winding, contorted.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 196)
  He that would behold a very anomalous motion, may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroakes of Gnat-worms.

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