credenciveadj.
/krᵻˈdɛnsɪv/, U.S. /krəˈdɛnsɪv/ Chiefly Parapsychology (now historical).
Disposed to give credence; ready to believe. Also: of or relating to a disposition to give credence.Chiefly in or after the works of James Stanley Grimes (1807–1903).
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1845 J. S. Grimes Etherology vii. 154 The relation of the inter-phreno senses to the organ of Consciousness must be understood in order to fully explain the philosophy of clairvoyance and of Credencive induction.
1845 J. S. Grimes Etherology xii. 229 A peculiar kind of monomania, in which the same motions are produced and imitated in the brain by the Credencive imagination, which are ordinarily produced by the brandy or the fire.
1872 S. P. Andrews Basic Outl. Universol. i. 15 The Dogma, Doctrine or Creed, semi-scientific and semi-credensive or faith-giving.]
1881 J. S. Grimes Probl. of Creation xix. 178 Novel-reading is a species of credencive idolatry, for it is a powerful exercise of the brain, a pleasing titillation of the mind, and generally without any real use.
2007 S. Halliday Sci. & Technol. in Age of Hawthorne 112 He [sc. J. S. Grimes] understands credencive induction as a sort of electromechanical breakdown, resulting from weakness of the subject's ‘insulation’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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