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plausive, a. Now rare.|ˈplɔːsɪv|
[f. L. plaus-, ppl. stem of plaudĕre (see plaud v.) + -ive.]
1. Having the quality of applauding; expressive of approval by or as by applause; applausive.
1600Heywood If you know not me Wks. 1874 I. 202 Those plausiue shouts, which giue you entertaine. 1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie (1877) 7 When Pandora had made this plausiue Oration. 1753L. M. Accomplished Woman II. 4 They who have a good voice sing where there is an echo, with a better grace, because the plausive sound makes them more sprightly. 1819Wordsw. Malham Cove 8 No mightier work had gained the plausive smile Of all-beholding Phoebus! 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Work & Days Wks. (Bohn) III. 69 The young graduate..would..find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.
†2.
a. = plausible 1 or 2. Obs.
1601Shakes. All's Well i. ii. 53 His plausiue words He scatter'd not in eares, but grafted them To grow there and to beare. 1602― Ham. i. iv. 30 By some habit, that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners.
†b. = plausible 3. Obs.
1601Shakes. All's Well iv. i. 29 What shall I say I haue done? It must bee a very plausiue inuention that carries it. 1767Antiq. in Ann. Reg. 145/1 The plausive arguments of false reasoners. 1820R. Polwhele Introd. Lavington's Enthus. Meth. & Papists C j, All this under the plausive pretext of Toleration. |