computativeadj.

a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 8* ^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tym Olympy tyme computatif of Grekis.

1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism iv vi. 630/1 A second remarkable Mode of Popular Figurative Speech is speaking in the Computative Sense, which is imply'd in the Sense of Equipollence.

1735 State Island Jersey 22 Putting the computative sum, a livre, to another value.

1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XVI. 71 He went into much computative detail, respecting the nominal and real expenditure.

1859 J. Ruskin Two Paths 114 What will please reckless, computative and vulgar persons.

1900 N. S. Shaler Individual (1901) x. 220 He had really founded the science of seismology in that he had first applied computative methods to the observation of earthquakes.

1937 C. Spearman Psychol. down Ages II. xxxix. 216 Even if the two parties, imaginative and computative respectively, did bring themselves to co-operate, there would still remain a most formidable barrier to further progress.

1994 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. 76 1207/2 Teaching computative skills includes instruction on how to design, gather, and test data for reasonableness.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 148 We who are of Abrahams Faith, and not of your meer Adamical fancy, are made not computatively onely, but inhaerently Righteous.

1705 E. Howard Copernicans of All Sorts Convicted 77 As by no Description we can discern or computatively apprehend, the Original Cause, or manner of the Order, Progression, or Beginning of the first Moment of time.

a1856 tr. P. Hispanus in W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. 367 (note) These singulars ought to be..disjunctively, not computatively, verified of their universal.

2005 J. von Neumann in J. M. Norman From Gutenberg to Internet viii. 448 Numerically significant pulses communicated..to units conditioned and intended to receive such data and/or to function computatively therewith and with other data.

1859 J. Ruskin Two Paths 114 The materials are addressed..to computativeness, in a series of figures.

2003 R. Katz & R. HaCohen Tuning Mind v. 195 Hutcheson's emphasis on the computativeness related to properties, highlighted the processing of the mind.