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portative, a. and n.|ˈpɔətətɪv|
Also 5 -if(f, 4–6 -yf, 5–6 -yue, 6 -yff(e, (portetyve).
[ME. portatif, a. F. portatif, -ive adj. that may be carried, f. L. portātus, pa. pple. of portāre to carry + -if, -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Adapted for carrying from place to place; portable; spec. applied to a kind of small organ (cf. positive a. 14): see B. 1. Now chiefly Hist.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. i. 155 Portatyf and persant as þe poynt of a nedle. c1391Chaucer Astrol. Prol. 3 As ferforth and as narwe as may be shewed in so smal an instrument portatif. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 133 Syngenge masse in secrete places on awters portative. 1518–19Will of Issley (Somerset Ho.), To the said church my portatyf organes. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 8 Portatiue tents or lodgings,..vsed by the Shepeheardes. 1656French Pastry Cook 22 Others have portative Ovens. 1849J. Whiteside Italy xlii. (1860) 439 The Pope is carried in his portative throne to the front window. 1905Ch. Times 30 June 842/3 The portative organ, which could be carried in procession and played by the same person.
†b. Of a bishop (repr. L. portātilis: see portatile): Not having a fixed diocese. Obs.
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §196 (1877) 114 The bysshop of Rome maketh bysshoppes portatyves.
2. Having the function of carrying or supporting.
1881Fitch Lect. Teaching v. 124 Some study..of the wise and practical distinction..between what he calls respectively the ‘portative’, the ‘analytical’, the ‘assimilative’, and the ‘index’ memory would be of great value. 1887Gumming Electricity 37 So [to] determine its portative power [i.e. of a horse-shoe magnet]. 1892Amer. Ann. Deaf Apr. 86 It is far from my purpose to lend encouragement..to any practice of making the memory a portative faculty.
B. n.
1. (usually pl.) A portative organ: see A. 1. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1450Holland Howlat 765 Claryonis lowde knellis, Portatiuis, and bellis. 1526–7Rec. St. Mary at Hill 341 Rec' of the Orgon Maker for þe olde portatyffis in þe quere xxvj s viij d. 1533in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 94 To my church of Norton a payre of portetyves that stand in the chauncell ther. 1552Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees, No. 97) 97 One peyre of portatyves. 1633J. Clarke Two-fold Praxis 25 Harpers, luters,..such as goe with..portatives, bagpipes, recorders. 1885A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 303/2 The organ and portative end at g{pp} instead of d{ppp}.
†2. A portable breviary: = portas 1. Obs.
1454Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 175 My Portatyue which I say opon my selfe, and my rede Salter.
†3. ? A tray or other carrying utensil. Obs.
a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 75 Ewers, lavours, and cupboarde-clothes, cuppe-clothes, hangers, ferrers, and portatives. Ibid. 76 One page..to helpe to wasshe barrelles, portatives, tubbes, pottes, or cuppes. |