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informative, a.|ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv|
[f. L. informāt- ppl. stem of informāre (cf. informate) + -ive, perh. after a med.L. *informātīvus.]
Having the quality of informing, in various senses.
1. That informs or gives ‘form’ (to matter); that imparts an active quality, or inspires with life; animative. ? Obs.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxiv, Many put out their force informative In their ethereall corporeity, Devoid of heterogeneall organity. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. iv. viii. (1821) 114 That definition which he gives of the soul, wherein he seems to make it nothing else..but an entelechia or informative thing, which spends all its virtue upon that matter which it informs. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 81 If we consider this union effective, so it regards the whole Trinity; if terminative, so the sonne; if informative, so the humanity of Christ alone.
2. a. Having the quality of imparting knowledge or communicating information; instructive.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. x. i. Ded., The most informative Histories to Posterity..are such as were written by the Eye⁓witnesses thereof. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iii. vi. (1848) 44 Ways and Methods, whereby to make the Objects we consider informative to us. c1819Coleridge in Rem. (1836) II. 211 The preparation informative of the audience is just as much as was precisely necessary. 1858Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 186 All art employed in decoration should be informative.
b. Bridge. = informatory a. b.
1921A. E. M. Foster Auction Bridge made Clear 105 There is an ‘informative’ double which some English players adopt... It is the double of a bid of one of a suit. 1925― Auction Bridge Play & Probl. 53 Thus Z bids ‘one No Trumps’ and A doubles informatively... The informative Re-double is never left in. 1931― Auction Bridge made Clear (rev.) 103 It is no longer an ‘informative’ double, but a ‘business’ double.
3. Law. Of the nature of or relating to legal information (sense 5).
1626Impeachm. Dk. Buckhm. (Camden) 70 The informative Proofes, the Sentence..in the Admiralty Court. 1639R. Gentilis tr. Servita's Inquis. (1676) 854 The thirteenth Chapter..treats of Informative Processes, which are to be sent into other places. |