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pressive, a. Now rare.|ˈprɛsɪv|
[ad. obs. F. pressif, -ive, pressing, urgent, violent (16th c. in Godef.): see press v.1 and -ive.]
†1. Pressing, urgent. Obs.
1619Times Storehouse iii. ii. iii. 301/1 If the affairs are pressiue..each canton must aduertise his confederates, to be in readinesse for aduising (altogether) on that which is to bee done.
†2. Oppressive. Obs.
1623Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xviii. i, How did he make siluer to be in Ierusalem as stones, if the exactions were so pressiue?
†3. Impressive. Obs.
1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 213 These are the most pregnant and pressiue passages.
4. a. Characterized by pressure; pressing.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 133 From the pressive violence of the action, it has also been highly beneficial in many cases of obstruction. 1887D. Maguire Art Massage (ed. 4) Introd. 6 Give pressive movements to the several joints.
b. Psychol. That pertains or relates to environmental press (see press n.1 6).
1938H. A. Murray Explorations in Personality ii. 96 In emotional action it is the sudden, close, pressive situation that seems to ‘do the work’ by releasing energy in the motor centres of the interbrain. |