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acceptive, a.|ækˈsɛptɪv|
[f. accept v. + -ive, as if ad. L. *acceptīvus. Cf. deceptive.]
1. passively. Fit or suitable for acceptance; appropriate.
1596Chapman Iliad vii. 85 Myself will use acceptive darts, And arm against him. c1851Mrs. Browning Loved Once And yet that word of ‘Once’ Is humanly acceptive.
2. actively. Having a tendency to accept, ready to accept; receptive of things offered.
1601B. Jonson Poëtaster iii. iv. 74 Please you to be acceptive..Yes sir, feare not; I shall accept. 1609― Case is Alt. ii. vii. 76 The people generally are very acceptive, and apt to applaud any meritable work. 1653Brome City Wit iv. iii. 350 Jo. Received they my Jewells? Cra. Yes, they prov'd acceptive. 1883W. Whitman Specimen Days 84 Returning to the naked source-life of us all—to the breast of the great silent savage all-acceptive Mother. 1920Edin. Rev. Jan. 46 Reverently acceptive of every Victorian formula.
Hence accepˈtivity, the quality or condition of being acceptive.
1920E. & C. Paul tr. Baudouin's Suggestion & Auto-suggestion Gloss., Acceptivity, the readiness with which the subconscious accepts an idea. |