Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of imagining or inventing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of forging or producing; inventive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inventive; productive; capable.
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- adjective obsolete
inventive ;productive ;capable
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rowley '-- issued in thick succession from this wonderful, and, to use the Shakspearean word in a twofold sense,' forgetive 'brain.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Rowley '-- issued in thick succession from this wonderful, and, to use the Shakspearean word in a twofold sense,' forgetive 'brain.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.
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Being quick and forgetive in his mental operations, even while completing his toilet, he had formed a plan for an attack upon the kingdom of darkness lying around him.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
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"It ascends me into the brain ... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2008
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit."
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
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