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depressive, a.|dɪˈprɛsɪv|
[f. L. dēpress-, ppl. stem of dēprimĕre to press down, depress + -ive.]
1. Tending to press or force down. rare.
1620Venner Via Recta vii. 112 By reason of their compressiue and depressiue force, they protrude and driue downe the meats from the stomacke.
2. fig.
a. Tending to produce depression, esp. of the spirits; of depressing nature.
1727Thomson Britannia 274 Even where the keen depressive North descends. 1787Misc. in Ann. Reg. 157 A compliance..would lead her friends into some depressive sensations. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor V. xxix. 114 In regions so depressive both to the bodily and intellectual powers. 1862Cornh. Mag. VI. 607 It is a kind of stimulation..which is not followed by any unhealthy depressive reaction.
b. Involving or characterized by depression as a psychiatric illness. Hence as n., one who suffers from this condition. Cf. manic-depressive.
1905Psychol. Rev. XII. 113 The German alienists are taking up again..depressive insanity, to which they rightly ascribe a great importance. 1951R. E. Money-Kyrle Psychoanalysis & Politics iv. 84 Religion is a form of psychotherapy which promotes a belief in the existence of idealized good objects against persecutory and depressive guilt. 1962Lancet 2 June 1171/2 An undiagnosed depressive illness is one of the commonest fatal mistakes in medicine. 1962Times 13 Dec. 15/2 Antonio was an endogenous depressive. 1965J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatment iii. 33 Guilt forms a nucleus for many delusional complaints of retarded depressives.
Hence deˈpressively adv., deˈpressiveness.
a1670Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 424 If I had a thousand tongues and inventions, I should speak faintly and depressively of that supernal Palace. 1832Carlyle Ess. (1872) IV. 112 Ill-health, and its concomitant depressiveness. |