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estimative, a.|ˈɛstɪmətɪv|
[ad. late L. æstimātīv-us, f. æstimāre: see estimate and -ive.]
1. Adapted for estimating; having the power of estimating.
†a. estimative faculty, estimative virtue, etc.: the faculty of ‘judgement’ (obs.).
b. estimative art [after Gr. στοχαστικὴ τέχνη].
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xi. (1495) 55 The vertue estimatiue and the ymagynatyf ben comyn to vs and to other beest. 1548–77Vicary Anat. iv. (1888) 31 In the middest sel or ventrikle [of the brain] there is founded..the Cogitatiue or estimatiue vertue. 1606Sir G. Goosecappe i. iv. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 22 To..make my estimative power believe, etc. 1666J. Smith Old Age (1752) 37 The fancy both estimative and cogitative. a1691Boyle (J.), The errour is not in the eye, but in the estimative faculty. 1859Encycl. Brit. XVII. 567/2 Mr. Combe..and others acknowledge that applied phrenology is an estimative art only.
†2.
a. Based upon estimation or approximate calculation.
b. Imputed, due to estimation. Obs.
1618–29Charges agst. Dk. Buckhm. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 346 This he delivered as a Sum Estimative. a1640Wandesforde Instruct. to his Son (1777) §83 A Jewel of that unvaluable Richness, not estimative but intrinsicall. 1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 151 It anticipates the time estimative but 10. min.
Hence † ˈestimatively adv. Obs., in an estimative manner; by way of esteem or respect.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 1 Our spiritual parents are more to be loved estimatively; our natural, more intensively. |