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discussive, a. and n.|dɪˈskʌsɪv| [f. L. discuss- ppl. stem of discutĕre to discuss + -ive.] A. adj. †1. Med. = discutient a. Obs.
1580Well of W. Hill, Aberdeen A iij, [The water] being laxatiue, attenuatiue..and discussiue. 1628Venner Tobacco (1650) 407 Its faculty being both discussive and expulsive. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Burdock, It..is discussive and bitter to the taste. †2. Having the quality of settling (a matter in dispute); decisive. Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions v. iv. 18 Things..not discussive for questions or disputes. 1644Presbytery Display'd (1668) 20 [They] have vocem deliberativam, vocem decisivam, have a debating, discussive voice. 3. Pertaining to discussion or debate. arch.
1644Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 304 Ready, in a fair and christianly discussive way, to debate and sift this matter. 1698J. Cockburn Bourignianism Detected i. 16 Those Rational discussive Faculties which help others to the knowledge of Truth. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 125 Judiciously curtailed of some..verbose discussive scenes. †B. n. Med. A dissipating or resolving agent; a discutient. Obs.
1612Enchir. Med. 92 Beware of immoderate discussiues. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xvi. 364 Discussives are such as generally disperse the matter, and so dissolve it insensibly. Hence † diˈscussively adv. † diˈscussiveness.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 6 These being artificially and discussively fastened to this Loadstone. 1727Bailey vol. II, Discussiveness, dissolving or dispersing quality. |