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▪ I. † conˈtentive, a.1 Obs.
[f. content v. + -ive: cf. inventive.]
Fitted to content; satisfying.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 80 What a brutish thing it is, howe short lasting, and but a minute contentiue. 1599Breton Farewell, The Company of a Contentive friend. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxvii. 300 They shall find it a more contentive life than idleness. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xiii. §2. 192 The..true contentive Obiect of the Soule of Man, is God.
▪ II. † conˈtentive, a.2 Obs.
[a. F. contentif, -ive, that contains, retains (in mod.F. only in the surgical use), f. L. type *contentīv-us, f. continēre to contain: see -ive and cf. retentive.]
Characterized by containing, holding together, maintaining, etc. In Surg. see quot. 1882.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 443 His good wil is the effective, contentive and provisive Virtue. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 144, I did not yet remove the contentive Compress. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Contentive, the same as Retentive, applied to bandages which retain the lips of a wound, or the ends of fractured bones in apposition. |