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Acquisitive
Acquisitive Ac*quis"i*tive, a.
1. Acquired. [Obs.]
He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native
soil. --Wotton.
2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an
acquisitive person or disposition.
Acquisitively
Acquisitively Ac*quis"i*tive*ly, adv.
In the way of acquisition.
Acquisitiveness
Acquisitiveness Ac*quis"i*tive*ness, n.
1. The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire
property; desire of possession.
2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute
the desire of acquiring and possessing. --Combe.
AppositiveAppositive Ap*pos"i*tive, a.
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in
apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Appositive to the words going immediately before.
--Knatchbull. AppositivelyAppositive Ap*pos"i*tive, a.
Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n. A noun in
apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Appositive to the words going immediately before.
--Knatchbull. Compositive
Compositive Com*pos"i*tive, a. [L. compositivus.]
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
[R.]
Desitive
Desitive Des"i*tive, a.
Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] ``Desitive
propositions.' --I. Watts.
Desitive
Desitive Des"i*tive, n. (Logic)
A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
[Obs.] --I. Watts.
Dispositive
Dispositive Dis*pos"i*tive, a. [Cf. F. dispositif.]
1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [Obs.]
His dispositive wisdom and power. --Bates.
2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [Obs.]
``Dispositive holiness.' --Jer. Taylor.
Dispositively
Dispositively Dis*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
[Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done
literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at
once. --Boyle.
Disquisitive
Disquisitive Dis*quis"i*tive, a.
Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation;
examining; inquisitive.
Electro-positive
Electro-positive E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive, a.
1. (Physics) Of such a nature relatively to some other
associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole
of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the
associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the
converse or correlative of electro-negative.
Note: An element that is electro-positive in one compound may
be electro-negative in another, and vice versa.
2. (Chem.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished
from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.
Electro-positive
Electro-positive E*lec`tro-pos"i*tive, n. (Chem. & Physics)
A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
Expositive
Expositive Ex*pos"i*tive, a.
Serving to explain; expository. --Bp. Pearson.
ExquisitiveExquisitive Ex*quis"i*tive, a.
Eager to discover or learn; curious. [Obs.] --Todd. --
Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. ExquisitivelyExquisitive Ex*quis"i*tive, a.
Eager to discover or learn; curious. [Obs.] --Todd. --
Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. InquisitiveInquisitive In*quis"i*tive, a. [OE. inquisitif, F.
inquisitif.]
1. Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do
not concern the inquirer.
A wise man is not inquisitive about things
impertinent. --Broome.
2. Given to examination, investigation, or research;
searching; curious.
A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius. --I.
Watts.
Syn: Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive.
Usage: Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a
feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when
we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive
when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or
research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more
commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire
to penetrate into the secrets of others.
[We] curious are to hear, What happens new.
--Milton.
This folio of four pages [a newspaper], happy
work! Which not even critics criticise; that
holds Inquisitive attention, while I read.
--Cowper.
Nor need we with a prying eye survey The distant
skies, to find the Milky Way. --Creech. Inquisitive
Inquisitive In*quis"i*tive, n.
A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research. --Sir
W. Temple.
Inquisitively
Inquisitively In*quis"i*tive*ly, adv.
In an inquisitive manner.
The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively
apply himself to the study of physic. --Boyle.
Inquisitiveness
Inquisitiveness In*quis"i*tive*ness, n.
The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to
seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is
unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.
Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great
activity, scrambled in at a high window. --Johnson.
Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove
that ignorance they were born with; which, without this
busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. --Locke.
Insensitive
Insensitive In*sen"si*tive, a.
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute
sensibility. --Tillotson. Ruskin.
Intensitive
Intensitive In*ten"si*tive, a.
Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the
intensitive words of a sentence. --H. Sweet.
Intransitively
Intransitively In*tran"si*tive*ly, adv. (Gram.)
Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive
verb.
M sensitivaSensitive Sen"si*tive, a. [F. sensitif. See Sense.]
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
as, a sensitive soul.
2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action
of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and
feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
--Macaulay.
3.
(a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or
moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by
certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or
bromide, when in contact with certain organic
substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]
A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
--Hammond.
5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
irritation. --E. Darwin.
Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea
sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
slight tendency to fold together.
Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that
under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
sounds of the proper pitch.
Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb
([AE]schynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.
Sensitive plant. (Bot.)
(a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or M.
sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of
which close at the slightest touch.
(b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States,
two common American species of Cassia (C. nictitans,
and C. Cham[ae]crista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis
sensitiva), etc. Mimosa sensitivaMimosa Mi*mo"sa (?; 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? imitator. Cf.
Mime.] (Bot.)
A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and
including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M.
pudica).
Note: The term mimosa is also applied in commerce to several
kinds bark imported from Australia, and used in
tanning; -- called also wattle bark. --Tomlinson. Nonsensitive
Nonsensitive Non*sen"si*tive, a.
Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily
affected.
OppositiveOppositive Op*pos`i*tive, a. [Cf. F. oppositif. See
Opposite.]
Capable of being put in opposition. --Bp. Hall. Oxalis sensitivaSensitive Sen"si*tive, a. [F. sensitif. See Sense.]
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
as, a sensitive soul.
2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action
of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and
feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
--Macaulay.
3.
(a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or
moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by
certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or
bromide, when in contact with certain organic
substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]
A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
--Hammond.
5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
irritation. --E. Darwin.
Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea
sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
slight tendency to fold together.
Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that
under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
sounds of the proper pitch.
Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb
([AE]schynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.
Sensitive plant. (Bot.)
(a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or M.
sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of
which close at the slightest touch.
(b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States,
two common American species of Cassia (C. nictitans,
and C. Cham[ae]crista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis
sensitiva), etc. Positive
Positive Pos"i*tive, a.
1. (Mach. & Mech.)
(a) Designating, or pertaining to, a motion or device in
which the movement derived from a driver, or the grip
or hold of a restraining piece, is communicated
through an unyielding intermediate piece or pieces;
as, a claw clutch is a positive clutch, while a
friction clutch is not.
(b) Designating, or pertaining to, a device giving a
to-and-fro motion; as, a positive dobby.
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