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explorative, a.|ɛkˈsplɒrətɪv, -splɔər-|
[f. L. explōrāt- (see explorate) + -ive. Cf. F. exploratif, -ive.]
Concerned with, or having the object of, exploration or investigation; inclined to make explorations.
1738Warburton Div. Legat. App. 63 Albinus..divides Plato's Dialogues into Classes..explorative, obstetric and subversive. 1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 664 Should the visitor be of a very inquisitive turn, he may satisfy his explorative disposition. 1875Masson Wordsworth, etc. 172 A Wordsworth, he admits, might have a genius of the explorative or mystery-piercing kind. 1887Daily News 16 Nov. 5/6 An explorative operation in May would have enabled the physicians to recognise the existence of cancer. 1890Pall Mall G. 8 Aug. 4/2 Few men of his age have done so much explorative tramping.
Hence exˈploratively adv. exˈplorativeness.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. i, Behoves us, not to enter exploratively its dim embroiled deeps. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 155 To prevent your snout, in a fit of explorativeness, from being snubbed by the impudent claws of a..rock. |