opinionativeadj.n.

a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (?1555) xvii. sig. G.iii^v The people of Boeme be opinionatyue standyng much in theyr owne conceits.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing Pref. B j I doubt not but the opinionative resolver, thinks all these easie Knowables.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. x. 130 Young Men are too opinionative and volatile to be guided by the sober Dictates of their Seniors.

1751 S. Johnson Cheynel in Student 2 No. 7. 262 Too young to teach, and too opinionative to learn.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiv. 302 Being..sufficiently opinionative, he did not readily brook being corrected, either in matter of fact or opinion, even by those who were principally interested in the subjects on which he speculated.

1826 M. Edgeworth Thoughts on Bores in Janus 71 The common female blue bore is..intolerable as a wife,—opinionative and opinionated.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 1/3 An opinionative Anglo-Indian, who spoke as one whose words were officially authoritative, was of the party.

1900 C. M. Yonge Mod. Broods xvi. 150 Since her engagement she had been much quieter and less opinionative.

1948 R. Ellmann Yeats ii. 10 In the Pollexfen family, silent, instinctive, so deep-feeling, he sought an opposite to his own affable, argumentative, opinionative mind.

1996 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Dec. 18 It takes great self-discipline to keep quiet to hold naturally opinionative people together.

1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 9 Your Selfe, very Opinionatiue of your knowledge.

1693 Vertue Rewarded 36 A fifth [suitor] was opinionative of his rustick valour.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xi. 546 This opinionatiue suspicion, euery one may take as hee please.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciv. 276 If this be not rather opinionatiue then reall.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. ii. i. 75/2 He declined a Settlement in some other, which he thought more Opinionative, and so more Contentious and Undesireable Places.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 115 The difference between a saving Faith which joyns us to Christ, and that which is true indeed, but not saving, but dogmatical and opinionative only.

1680 R. Baxter Moral Prognostication i. xciv. 22 An Opinionative, Modal, and Siding Religiousness, hath ever more Followers..than true Holiness.

1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 163 We will deny ourselves of some things, both Opinionative and Practical, for your sake.

1869 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life (new ed.) iv. 49 So far what is done is merely opinionative or notional, and there is no transactional faith.

1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Dec. 1/2 The Board to have..the option of refraining from making any award, and of publishing an opinionative report on the dispute instead.

1962 F. G. Wilson Theory Public Opinion p. x [The individual's] right to know what use is to be made of the opinionative, attitudinal, or emotional material that is taken from him..is not always respected.

2002 Africa News (Nexis) 1 May An information technology seminar for journalists to guide towards a more factual and less opinionative information technology reportage.