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predictive, a.|prɪˈdɪktɪv|
[ad. late L. prædictīvus foretelling, prognosticating, f. prædīcĕre: see predict v. and -ive.]
a. Having the character or quality of predicting; indicative of the future.
1659Pearson Creed ii. 150 There is scarce an action which is not clearly predictive of our Saviour. 1791Cowper Odyss. ii. 243 Birds numerous flutter in the beams of day Not all predictive. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. iv. (1855) 49 That baleful and livid tint predictive of a storm. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ ii. 36 Using the word prophecy in its predictive sense. 1908Westm. Gaz. 9 May 4/4, I can see with prophetic eyes and hear with predictive ears a development of programme-music which may in the future militate somewhat against the dominant position of the opera. 1957Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1956 xxvi. 71 The results proved to be over 90% predictive. 1961A. G. Oettinger in Proc. Symposia Appl. Math. XII. 105 Predictive analysis yields a description of the syntactic structure of a sentence in terms consonant, although not identical, with old-fashioned parsing, immediate constituent theory.., or phrase-structure theory. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. xii. 259 In contrast with this pass procedure is a ‘predictive method’.., which more closely represents the mathematician's view of the language structure—one based on the expectations of what is to follow. 1966I. Rhodes in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School, Venice, 1962) 206 Our method has become known as ‘predictive analysis’ and is based upon the universal habit on the part of the listener to anticipate the type of word which a speaker is about to utter. 1966Jrnl. Canad. Operational Res. Soc. 117 Predictive model, a model used in a war game to predict the results of actions and interactions between opposing forces. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVIII. 145 Although the measures are required to compensate for educational disadvantage, they are also expected to have acceptable predictive validity in a system where all groups are competing for the limited further education places.
b. Applied to the future tense when it simply asserts, without any admixture of will or obligation.
1811–31Bentham Univ. Gram. Wks. 1843 VIII. 350 In consequence of this modification, it required to be distinguished into two species,—1. The simply predictive future; 2. The dominative future. 1841Latham Eng. Lang. (1850) 463 The predictive future.—I shall be there..means simply that the speaker will be present... The promissive future.—I will be there..means that he intends being so.
Hence preˈdictively adv., in a predictive manner or form, by way of prediction; preˈdictiveness.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxi, ‘It was Miss Edwards who did that, I know’, said Miss Monflathers predictively. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ vii, Anticipating the day in which we live, and predictively speaking of Christians alone. a1902A. B. Davidson Old Test. Proph. xiii. (1903) 232 Wherein does their predictiveness consist? |